Sc. Obs. Also 8 weath. [? a. ON. váð = OE. wǽd WEED sb.2] ? Cloth, clothes: chiefly in phrase claith and waith (see quot. 1825).
1603. Philotus, xi. (Bannatyne Club). Philotus is … Ane ground-riche man and full of graith: He wantis na jewels claith nor waith.
1768. Ross, Helenore, I. 48. Bannocks and kebbocks knit intil a claith She had laid by, an’ row’d up in her waith. Ibid., II. 74. The worth o’t twice, in claith or weath ye’s get. Ibid., II. 75. Your claith an’ waith will never tell wi’ me.
1825. Jamieson, s.v., Claith nor waith seems to have been a Prov. expression; perhaps q. ‘neither cloth in the piece, nor cloth made into garments.’
