Sc. Also 5, 9 wasper, 9 wausper. [The first element is obscure; the second element is SPEAR sb.] A fishing-spear. Cf. WASTER sb.3
1472. Munim. de Melros (Bannatyne Club), 591. That nane … presume … till … fisch thare Wateris with Wasperis nettis or any vthir Instrumentis.
1547. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 246. For keiping of thair watteris and fischingis of Done and Dee … in raid tyme fra all maner of nettis, cobillis, wawsperis, heryvalteris, and all wther instrumentis.
1887. Jamieson, Suppl., and Add.
