wauk

Verb

waulk (third-person singular simple present waulks, present participle waulking, simple past and past participle waulked)

1. (transitive, obsolete outside Northern England and Scotland) to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
   • 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.1900, Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica, volume 1, page 310

   Synonyms:

   full, walk