subs. (old cant).—The gallows: see NUBBING-CHEAT. Also (Scots’) THE WIDDY, and Fr. veuve (formerly the gallows, now applied to the guillotine).
d. 1796. BURNS, The Jolly Beggars (Globe), 50.
| Her dove had been a Highland laddie, | |
| But weary fa’ the waefu’ WOODIE! |
