wauk

¹ British  

/ wɔːk /

verb

1. a Scot word for wake 1

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wauk ² British  

/ wɔːk /

verb

1. (tr) to full (cloth)

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Etymology

Origin of wauk

C15: variant of _walk

Example Sentences

This was not least because I enjoyed imagining the Swedish Academy reading about Coolongolook, Wang Wauk, Forster, Wallamba, Gloucester, and Tuncurry—rural places that populate Murray’s poems, and whose names mix lower-class British English, from which Australian vernacular is derived, with Aboriginal words of the inland farm country he grew up in.

From The New Yorker

“I know what's at stake,” Rodgers said Tuesday on his radio show on WAUK-540 AM in Milwaukee.

From Chicago Tribune

We’d wauk aht it morning wen t’yung sun wor shining,    Wen t’birds hed awakened, and t’lark soar’d the air, An’ I’d watch its last beam, on me Mary reclining,    From ahr dear little cot on the benks o’ the Aire.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet thy hills they are pleasant, tho’ rocky an’ bare; Thy dawters are handsom, thy sons they are rare; When I wauk thro’ thy dells, by the clear running streams, I think o’ mi boyhood an’ innocent dreams.

From Project Gutenberg

And wat’s war nur all, yah’ve hed to wauk wet and dry, thro thick and thin, i all sorts o’ weather to Keighley, wen you’ve wanted to go on the continent or Lundun. 

From Project Gutenberg