wab
Americannoun
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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
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
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 Ian Maclaren
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
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
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