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waired

waired is the simple past and past participle of wair.

Meaning of wair

Verb

wair (third-person singular simple present wairs, present participle wairing, simple past and past participle waired)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
    • […]they find there was no lesion to the minor by setting the said tack, and that the money waired out by the defender, in building and reparations, viz not only the ₤1317 Scots first given out, but also the ₤326 last waired by the defender,[…]1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session, volume 3, Edinburgh, page 569

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What is waired the simple past and past participle of?
Waired is the simple past and past participle of wair.

Words near waired in the dictionary

  1. wair
  2. Wairakei
  3. wairakite
  4. Wairarapa
  5. wairauite
  6. waired
  7. Wairewa
  8. wairing
  9. Wairoa
  10. Wairokpam
  11. wairs

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