A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1500, 1592-1641
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Waithing, -yng, vbl. n. Also: wathing, (watching, wetching). [ON veiða to hunt, catch fish.] = Waith n.1 Also attrib.a1500 Henr. Fab. 1958.
Swa happinnit him [sc. the wolf] in waithing [Ch. watching, H. wetching] as he went To meit ane foxe c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i 387 (see Waith n.1).
Waithyng 1592 (1610) Reg. Great S. 118/1 (see Waith n.2 b (a)). 1603 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 69.
William Gardie, fold of Unst, is decernit to mak compt, rakning and payment of the wathing of Burrafirthe sa far as concernis the kingis part of thrie merk land in Cliff 1634 Sc. Rec. Off. MS CS 7/468 179a.
Teind of selchis slain yeirlie in waithing in Selchiskerrieattrib. 1641 Sc. Rec. Off. MS RS 44/3 219a.
With the waithing skerrie proper thairto as a pendicle thairof callit the West Holme or Skerrie of Burrafirth
