waulking

• Coisich, A Rùin (Come On, My Love), a 400 year old gaelic waulking song, reached the Top 40 in the United Kingdom. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• The Walker, Fuller, and Tucker, all did very much the same work of "waulking," or trampling, the cloth. —  The Romance of Names
• June 5, 186 --- it raned last nite. brite and fair today. it raned hard and the sidewalks was filed with pudles of water. me and Beany had lots of fun spatering peeple. the way we do it is this. when we see sum peeple waulking on the sidewaulks we run by them fast and stamp hard in the pudles and the water spaters all over them. we dont do it to wimmen and girls. but we do to men and fellers. it is lots of fun to hear them sware. —  Brite and Fair
• June 25, 186 -- today old Mis Dire come over. i was in the shed and i saw her go waulking stiflegged. after a minit or too mother called me. i pertended —  Brite and Fair
• 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

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