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- verb transitive, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland to make
cloth (especiallytweed inScotland )denser and morefelt -like bysoaking andbeating
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Examples
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Part of the Biasse, as it issues from the defile, is turned aside here and there to drive little fulling-mills of the rudest construction, where the people "waulk" the cloth of their own making.
The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858
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When teh free bares went 4 a waulk it wuz awlwaies Papa Bare in front Mama Bare in teh MIddlol anb teh Liddlol bare behind …
PARTNERSHIP - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Adn: Les geyt dat plank aowt, iyn cayse sumwun hasta waulk iyt!
Pirate triplet - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Tihs trikk haz bin abruptlee stalleded; tehir oawnley hoep iys foar teh hyuoomin tuu waulk iyn adn, nawt notissing teh shoo, tuu fawl oaver iyt!
K, nao tie it to the other shoo - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Awl her hasta du iz tu waulk daown teh streeit adn peeps jes geyts affektid wen tehy seez her-liek fawlling oaver, kerplopp, iyn ebbery direkshun.
why ur hed jus asplode? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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BTW, Ai hadd noe ideeya yuu cud waulk soe wel awn yuur hindes leggs liek taht;
i come to burgl - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Iyf hims geyts tyred ovvit, hims wil jes turnez aroun adn waulk awaiy;
Depth perception kitteh… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Soe teh uhnfoartunite kitteh hasta waulk aroun luukeiyng liek a floppee-eareded puppeh, oanley haff-waiy; teh poar kitteh duz nawt knoe wevver tuu sez
Dood, can I borrow ur gel? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Awlsoe, sumeboddee useded ‘irony’ bye tellyng kitteh tuu taike hers hyuoomin foar a waulk, iynsynuatyng taht kitteh wuud lern ‘responsibility’ taht waiy;
Go wawk da hoomin she sayz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Astrohnawt Kitteh bees goeying foar nawt sekond waulk awn wun ov teh flaggstoane drieves ov teh Muune;
Iz ask for halp… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
bilby commented on the word waulk
"They would make a fire and heat water in those black pots they used to have and they would sing all day, slapping the clothes on the rocks in perfect rhythm. And they would do the same thing when they were making blankets, waulking the cloth, all of them sitting at that long table."
- 'No Great Mischief', Alistair MacLeod.
February 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word waulk
This is a muppet Swedish chef kind of word. Ok, Scottish chef.
July 20, 2021
plethora commented on the word waulk
Like all the best Scots words, this sounds like an insult
July 22, 2021