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wedset

wedset is the alternative form of wadset.

Meaning of wadset

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

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Forms of wedset

Noun
pluralwedsets
Verb
third-person singular presentwedsets
present participlewedsetting
past participlewedsetted
pastwedsetted

Questions about wedset

What is wedset the alternative form of?
Wedset is the alternative form of wadset.

Words near wedset in the dictionary

  1. Wednesfield
  2. Wednesnight
  3. Wednesnights
  4. Wedowee
  5. weds
  6. wedset
  7. wedsets
  8. wedsetted
  9. wedsetter
  10. wedsetters
  11. wedsetting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wedset (page history and authors); wadset (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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