Sc. and north. [f. WAY sb.1 + GATE sb.2 Cf. way-gang, -go s.v. WAY sb.1 40.]
1. A passage-way.
For various special uses see Eng. Dial. Dict.
a. 1800. in Hogg, Jacobite Relics (1819), I. 24. He’s awa to sail, Wi’ water in his waygate, An’ wind in his tail.
1866. Carlyle, E. Irving, in Froude, Remin. (1881), I. 101. ‘Upon all these [books] you have will and waygate,’ an expressive Annandale phrase of the completest welcome.
2. Speed, progress, headway. Sc. and north.
1825–82. Jameson.
1894. Northumbld. Gloss.
