Sc. Obs. Forms: 6 wairstall, wairstaw, waistaw, vairscall, vairsta, war-, varstay. [f. WARE sb.3 + STALL sb.] A store cupboard.
1508. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IV. Item, for lokkis and bandis to the gret wair stallis in the Kingis wardrob in Edinburgh, v s.
1530. Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871), II. 39. Ane waistaw, a schryne, ane chyrater.
1538. Aberd. Reg. (MS.), XVI. (Jam.). Ane fysche fat, a geill fat, a vairscall.
1561. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 336. Ane almary, ane vairsta, ane maill fatt.
1565. in D. Hay Fleming, Reform. Scot. (1910), 610. Ane langsadill of aik, with ane greit wairstaw of aik.
1572. Rec. Elgin (New Spalding Club), I. 134. Airschip guidis … ane karr, ane muksled, ane varstay, ane almrie.
