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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1563-1657
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Wading, -yng, vbl. n. Also: vading, waiding, wadding, vydin. [e.m.E. wading (1598).] The action of moving through water or boggy ground on foot (Wad(e v.1 1). Also fig. (Wad(e v.1 2 b). 11.. Reg. Dunferm. 190.
Terras totas de Potwell … Well medow cum Well flat … et in Wadyngflat tres acras jacentes 1375 Barb. vii 56.
Sum men sayis this eschaping Apon ane other maner fell Than throw the wading [C. vading] 1611 Reg. Panmure I xxxiv.
Quha … beine tyrit, and heawie withe vydin the vater 1634–5 Peebles B. Rec. I 419.
To James Haddane … waiding in Tueid Watter and cairieng stones to lay about the pillar of the bridge 1657 Balfour Ann. I 293.
To saue themselues by wadding in sea to the neckesfig. 1563 G. Hay Confutation Abbot Crosraguel (To the Reader) 1b.
It shall not onely be to the unlearned confortable, … but also to the learned, they being releaued of the werisome wading through the doctors
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