wadset

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noun

The conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.

OriginMiddle English wedsetten →
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Meanings

nounwadset (countable and uncountable, plural wadsets)

plural wadsets · alternative wadsett · alternative wedset

  1. ScotlandcountableobsoleteuncountableThe conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.

    It was at this time that Rob Roy acquired an interest by purchase, wadset, or otherwise, to the property of Craig Royston already mentioned.

    1829, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition
verbwadset (third-person singular simple present wadsets, present participle wadsetting, simple past and past participle wadsetted)

present singular third person wadsets · participle present wadsetting · participle past wadsetted · past wadsetted · alternative wadsett · alternative wedset

  1. ScotlandobsoleteTo mortgage land.

    I thought I heard the footstep of the young portioner of Glaiketha; he'll be come to borrow gold and to wadset land.

    1822, Allan Cunningham, “Death of the Laird Of Warlsworm”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 2, page 307

Origin

  1. Middle Englishwedsetten
  2. Englishwadset

From Middle English wedsetten, equivalent to wed (“pledge”) + set. Wad is a Scottish form of wed.

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APA

wadset. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wadset

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wadset,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wadset.

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