Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Wattirticht, Wat(t)er ticht, -t(h)ycht, Watir thicht, adj. (n.). Also: wattyrtycht, wattirteich, vattirt(h)icht, watterthicht, -thigcht, -tight, -teich(t, -teiht, -teight, vatter thit(ht, -t(e)ycht, watert(h)ight, -t(h)eicht, -teight, -tech, vaterticht, -tycht, waltyr teicht, walter tycht, -teicht, valter thicht. [e.m.E. waterthyght (1514), water-tight (1601).]

A. adj.Impervious to water. Cf. Wattirfast adj. See also Wynd n.¹ 5 c for further examples.(a) 1387 Edinb. Chart. 35.
Thekyt abovyn with stane and water thycht 1387 Edinb. Chart. 36.
The qwilke werke the … masounys sal warande watir thicht 1489 Prot. Bk. J. Young 55.
Scho to uphold the said land watertech 1507 Reg. Privy S. I 218/1.
Waterticht 1529 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 98.
That he suld nocht haf haldin his hous vatertycht and fra vond and water as us is 1534 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 118.
Watertheicht 1567 Lanark B. Rec. 39.
Water teicht 1607 Orkney Rentals App. 89.
Water thight 1626 Falkirk Par. Rec. I 49.
Watertycht 1627 Edinb. Kirk S. 203.
Vaterticht 1649 Cramond Ch. Rathven 19.
Watertight 1665 Melrose Reg. Rec. II 121.
Wyndteight and water teight 1686 Reg. Deeds McKen. Office LIX 138.
To have the said shipe water tight under & above(b) 1496 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 70.
The mylnis … to be … watter tycht 1499 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 99.
To kep him wattertycht in … the nethirpart of the tenement 1529–30 Reg. Privy S. II 63/1.
For the … watter ticht halding of our lugeing 1532 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 59.
Vphaldand the said kirk in sclatis, watterticht glaswyndois [etc.] 1535–6 Selkirk B. Ct. MS 206a (4 Feb.).
Vatter teycht 1547 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 131.
That thair be at euery port ane luge quhair the porter may sitt watterticht 1549–50 Reg. Soltre 113.
Vattirticht 1551 Reg. Cupar A. II 69.
Watterteiht 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II 87.
Wattirticht 1551 Elgin Rec. I 110.
William Hay … was decernit to mak James Pringillis kill vatter thitht 1551 Dundee B. Ct. II 69b (22 June).
Watter thigcht 1554 Aberd. B. Rec. I 281.
Vattirthicht 1555 Edinb. B. Rec. II 218.
Watter teicht 1556–7 Reg. Soltre 120.
Wattyrtycht 1566 Reg. Soltre 129.
Watterthicht 1571 Inverness Rec. I 205.
To be vphaldin and watter thycht be the said James induring the saidis Donaldis lyftyme 1572 Black Bk. Taymouth 415.
Watterteich 1585 Forres B. Ct. 29 Nov.
Vatterthit 1600 S. Leith Rec. 3/1.
Watter teight 1607 Acts IV 381/1.
Wattirteich 1616 Aberd. B. Rec. II 341 (see Platforme v.). 1683 Edinb. Surgeons II 269a.
Watter tight(c) 1563 Lanark B. Rec. 32.
Waltyr teicht 1563 Edinb. B. Rec. III 164.
To mend the rufe … and mak the samyn waltertycht 1565 Edinb. B. Deeds 196a.
Walterteicht 1589 St. A. B. Ct. 17 Sept.
And to putt wp sufficient tabling langis the wall … quhairby the ruif … mey be sufficientlie valter thicht

B. noun.The state of being impervious to water. 1539 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 213.
Anent the vatter tycht of that hous, ‘I saw part of droppis in to it bot I sawe that the saidis gudis incurit na danger’