waught

I'd known that auld lang syne meant something like "old time's sake" and that a right guid-willie waught was probably a decent measure of whisky, but I'd never stopped at fiere.

How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay 2010

"So gies a haund my trusty fiere/ and here's a haund o' thine;/ And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught/ For auld lang syne."

How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay 2010

Now there are many things I will take for the Co-operative Movement, but a right good willi-waught is not one of them!

Archive 2005-09-01 Kerron Cross 2005

When we came to 'Here's a hand, my trusty frere' we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would 'take a right gude willie waught,' and hadn't the least idea what it meant, we were really affected.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_

Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

And we'll tak a right guid [230-17] willie-waught [230-18]

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

” When we came to “Here’s a hand, my trusty frere, ” we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would “take a right gude willie-waught, ” and hadn’t the least idea what it meant, we were really affected.

XVII. Somebody Turns Up 1917

When we came to 'Here's a hand, my trusty frere' we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would 'take a right gude willie waught,' and hadn't the least idea what it meant, we were really affected.

Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

"Ye'll hae a waught wi 'me afore ye gang, John," he said clumsily, "for th 'morns we've paddl' 't thegither i 'th' Nith."

Richard Carvel — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

"Ye'll hae a waught wi 'me afore ye gang, John," he said clumsily, "for th 'morns we've paddl' 't thegither i 'th' Nith."

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909