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wadset en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English wedsetten, equivalent to wed (“pledge”) + set. Wad is a Scottish form of wed.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, countable, obsolete, uncountable) The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
    • It was at this time that Rob Roy acquired an interest by purchase, wadset, or otherwise, to the property of Craig Royston already mentioned. 1829, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition:

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wedset alternative lexicographic
wadsets Number=Plur lexicographic

wadset en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English wedsetten, equivalent to wed (“pledge”) + set. Wad is a Scottish form of wed.

Meanings

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) To mortgage land.
    • I thought I heard the footstep of the young portioner of Glaiketha; he'll be come to borrow gold and to wadset land. 1822, Allan Cunningham, “Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 2, page 307:

Forms

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wadsetted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wadsetted Tense=Past lexicographic
wadsetting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wedset alternative lexicographic
wadsett alternative lexicographic
wadsets Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

wadsetter