Sc. (chiefly Orkney and Shetland). Obs. [? Altered form of WAIF sb.] = WAIF sb.

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1478.  Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 281. Terras dominiorum de Orknay et Zetland … unacum le Wrak, Wattell, Waithe et Hasewaith, et cum consimilibus proficuis [etc.].

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1615.  Acts Sherifs Orkney, § 15, in Edin. Antiq. Mag. (1849), 8. No person … sal hyde nor conseall any kynd of thift, injurie, robrie, nor opressioun in wraik or waith.

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[1897.  D. J. Robertson, in Longm. Mag., XXIX. Feb., 333.

        Through the heaped mysteries of waith and wrack,
When the long wave from the long beach draws back.]

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  b.  attrib. or adj. (Cf. WAIF a.)

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1671.  Shetland Docum., in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892), XXVI. 194. To … secure all wrack and waith goods.

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  fig.  1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VI. Prol. 68. Virgilis sawis … aucht nocht be hald wagabound nor waith.

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