A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1500
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Wait, prep. (Prob. erron. for With prep.) —a1500 Prestis of Peblis 629.
Justice, crounar, sariand and justice clark … Thus fla thay all the puir men belly flaucht, And fra the puir taks many felloun fraucht, And steirs them and wait the tyde will gang