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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Wallat, -et(t, -it, n. Also: vallat, valet, wellot. [ME and e.m.E. walet (Chaucer), walette (Prompt. Parv.), wallet (1514), wallatt (1674).] A (canvas or leather) bag for carrying or storing clothes or other gear; a merchant's or pedlar's pack.(a) 1506–7 Treas. Acc. III 372.
For ane wallat to John of Bute xij d. 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 272.
Deliverit to hir to be ane wallat till turs his clathis in ane elne barten cammes 1540 Lynd. Sat. 4405.
Get vp, man … Or … Ise gar thé want thy wallet 1543–4 Treas. Acc. VIII 269.
Vallat 1552 Crail B. Ct. 17 Nov.
[He] grantis thayr is ane valet in his hows he vat noht quhat vas thayrin 1567 Acts III 43/1.
That nane be fund careand veschell priuatlie in polkis wallattis or vtherwyis a1585 Polwart Flyt. 783 (T).
Vnhallat, peillit pallat, ryp wallat, quhen thow spotches 1595 Breadalbane Ct. Bk. 92a.
Awand to him ane wallat with the haill plaids that wer thairin 1601 Reg. Privy C. I 861.
He saw thir boyis haveing twa steil-bonnettis caryit with thame in twa little wallattis 1616 Inverness Rec. II 146.
Quhilk geir being blew bonnats, knyiffis and schiris extending to ten punds wirth being extant ressauit the sam again out of the said ledderin wallat 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 37.
For a wallat to put the nailles in 1579, 1617 Despauter (1617) 29.
Mantica, a wallet 1634 Peebles Gleanings 171.
For ane ledder wallit to put in our writis 3 s. 1645 Rec. Old Aberd. II 21.
Ane faire morte cloath … and … ane laddering wallet for the keeping off it 1669 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 109.
Thomas Gaire, a chapman that caries a wallett throw the countrey(b) 1538 Treas. Acc. VII 31.
For twa bukrame wellotis to keip the welvot harnessing in xij s.