waulking

• The Walker, Fuller, and Tucker, all did very much the same work of "waulking," or trampling, the cloth. —  The Romance of Names
• A constant stream of men passed in and out at the change-house closes and about the Fisherland tenements, where seafarers and drovers together sang the maddest love-ditties in the voices of roaring bulls; beating the while with their feet on the floor in our foolish Gaelic fashion, or, as one could see through open windows, rugging and riving at the corners of a plaid spread between them, -- a trick, I daresay, picked up from women, who at the waulking or washing of woollen cloth new spun, pull out the fabric to tunes suited to such occasions. —  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
• And so we went into all this perplexity of Highland pedigree like old wives at a waulking, forgetting utterly that what we began to quarrel about was the more serious charge of lying. —  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
• _waulking the cloth_, v. 178, n. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.
• I hid a smile at the mention of wool waulking. —  Dragonfly in Amber

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