waulk
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English walken, from Old English wealcian (“to roll up; muffle up”), from Proto-West Germanic *walkōn, from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about; full (cloth)”).
Cognate with Scots waulk (“to full”), Dutch walken (“to full”), German walken (“to full”), Danish valke (“to full”), Swedish valka (“to full”). Doublet of walk.
Verb
editwaulk (third-person singular simple present waulks, present participle waulking, simple past and past participle waulked)
- (transitive, obsolete outside Northern England and Scotland) to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
- 1900, Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica, volume 1, page 310:
- The frame on which the cloth is waulked is a board some twelve to twenty-four feet long and about two feet broad, grooved lengthwise along its surface.
- 1992, Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber, Random House Group (Arrow Books), page 590,
- I hid a smile at the mention of wool waulking. Alone among the Highland farms, I was sure, the women of Lailybroch waulked their wool not only to the old traditional chants but also to the rhythms of Moliére and Piron.
- 2013, Marek Korczynski, Michael Pickering, Emma Robertson, Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, Cambridge University Press, page 97:
- Here, we compare waulking songs and shanties to see how they operated in bringing women and men, respectively, into a sense of close alignment.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editfull — see full
Scots
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English walken, from Old English wealcan (“to roll, toss”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editwaulk (third-person singular simple present waulks, present participle waulkin, simple past waulkit, past participle waulkit)
- (transitive) to full (cloth)
- (intransitive) (of cloth) to shrink from moisture
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