wab

American  

[wahb] / wɑb /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. web.

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wab

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 John Brown

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 Robert Burns

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 Robert Burns

But the king and court did not seem inclined to afford much information, merely contenting themselves with answering, "Squi wab squob squavarab skoi rig," which, being interpreted, runs thus, "Very fine man the missionary."

From The Hubble-Shue by Christian Carstairs

Young Wellwood 'll gie her silks and satins by the wab, and siller in gowpens.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various