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wadset

wadset noun: the conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.

Noun

wadset (countable and uncountable, plural wadsets)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
    • 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, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition

Verb

wadset (third-person singular simple present wadsets, present participle wadsetting, simple past and past participle wadsetted)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) To mortgage land.
    • 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, volume 2, page 307

Forms of wadset

Noun
pluralwadsets
alternative formwadsett
alternative formwedset
Verb
third-person singular presentwadsets
present participlewadsetting
past participlewadsetted
pastwadsetted

Origin of wadset

From Middle English wedsetten, equivalent to wed (“pledge”) + set. Wad is a Scottish form of wed.

Questions about wadset

What does wadset mean?
Wadset means the conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
What part of speech is wadset?
Wadset can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wadset?
The plural of wadset is wadsets.

Words near wadset in the dictionary

  1. wadmolls
  2. wadn't
  3. wado
  4. Wadowice
  5. wads
  6. wadset
  7. wadsets
  8. wadsett
  9. wadsetted
  10. wadsetter
  11. wadsetters

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