wab
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Thomas Bertram, your loom is at a discount, but many's the happy day I have watched you and your shuttle, and the interweaving treadles, and all the mysteries of setting the "wab."
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John
Ithers declare 'at he's got a wab o' claith, and hes a new pair made in Muirtown aince in the twa year maybe, and keeps them in the garden till the new look wears aft.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Maclaren, Ian
The thrift o' you and the woo o' a dog wad mak a braw wab.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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 Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
I coft a stane o' haslock woo', To mak a wab to Johnie o't; For Johnie is my only jo, I loe him best of onie yet.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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