Dictionary of the Scots Language
Dictionar o the Scots Leid

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

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Wa(l)k, n.² [OE wolc, var. of wolc(e)n.] (A) cloud, clouds. — The moyn was vndir walk [Ruddim. wak altered f. MS walk] and gaif na lycht; Doug. iii viii 155.
The mone wox dark, and hid was vnder walk; Rolland Seven S. 2413.