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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Wa(l)t, n.¹ Also: waut, wait. [Late ME and e.m.E. weltte (c1425), welte (Cath. Angl.), walte (1500), welt (1530).] a. A welt on a shoe, the strip of leather (or cloth) joining sole and upper. b. A strip of reinforcement or decoration to be applied to a garment, etc.a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 213.
Upoun thy botingis … Stra wispis hingis owt quhair that the wattis [M. waltis] ar worne 1576 Inverness Rec. I 250.
He makis … insufficient wark of schone … and makis schone of horse leddir, waittis of smyddie belleissis and auld buittis … The saidis James … confessit the making waittis to schone of auld belleissis 1582 Treas. Acc. MS 101b.
Blak weluet tobe wattis to his hienes weit ledder schone 1637 Banff Ann. I 80.
The price of singil soillit schoes for ilk inche within the waittis therof 12 d. 1656 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 163.
Waltsb. 1506 Treas. Acc. III 115.
Item, for ane waut of Rislis broun to it [sc. a kirtle], iij s. 1553 Treas. Acc. X 173.
For silk to put on the wat of this goun 1583 Treas. Acc. MS 123b.
Incarnet satyne tobe waltis to the doublet & breickis 1662 Edinb. Test. LXX 216a.
Thrie womens wats of plaiding