wadset
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English wedsetten, equivalent to wed (“pledge”) + set. Wad is a Scottish form of wed.
Noun
wadset (countable and uncountable, plural wadsets)
- (obsolete, Scotland) The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
- 1829, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Introduction to the 1829 edition,[1]
- It was at this time that Rob Roy acquired an interest by purchase, wadset, or otherwise, to the property of Craig Royston already mentioned.
- 1829, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Introduction to the 1829 edition,[1]
Verb
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- (obsolete, Scotland) To mortgage land.
- 1822, Allan Cunningham, "Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 2, p. 307.
- I thought I heard the footstep of the young portioner of Glaiketha; he'll be come to borrow gold and to wadset land.
- 1822, Allan Cunningham, "Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 2, p. 307.