wab

American  

[wahb] / wɑb /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. web.

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Example Sentences

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wab

Ye're quite right, madam; a rotten-hearted wab is just like a rotten-hearted man—they baith come to an ill end.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

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

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 Burns, Robert

I gaed up to Dunse, To warp a wab o’ plaiden, At his daddie’s yett, Wha met me but Robin.

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 Burns, Robert

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