wab
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They fetch'd a wab o' the silken claith, Anither o' the twine, And they wapp'd them into the gude ship's side, But aye the sea cam' in.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
My mither sent me to the town, To warp a plaiden wab; But the weary, weary warpin o't Has gart me sigh and sab.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
My mither sent me to the town, To warp a plaiden wab; But the weary, weary warpin o’t Has gart me sigh and sab.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Ye're cawking the claith ere the wab be in the loom.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
I gaed up to Dunse, To warp a wab o' plaiden, At his daddie's yett, Wha met me but Robin: Robin shure, &c.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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