WAIR

Etymology 1

Noun

wair (plural wairs)

A plank six feet long and one foot across.

Etymology 2

Verb

wair (third-person singular simple present wairs, present participle wairing, simple past and past participle waired)

(Scotland, obsolete) To spend.

Etymology 3

Verb

wair

Nonstandard form of were.

Anagrams

• Wari, iWar, wari

Source: Wiktionary


Wair, n. (Carp.)

Definition: A piece of plank two yard Bailey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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