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Wat2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wat2 Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5–6 watte, 6–7 watt, 5–7, 9 dial. wat. [Prob. a use of Wat, short for Walter († Water).] A hare.

1 a. 1500.  Mourn. Hare, 26, in E. E. Misc. (Warton Club), 44. Lo! he sayth, where syttyt an haare! Aryse upe, Watte, and go forthe blyve! Ibid., 60. As doth the sylly Wat.

2 c. 1500.  in Babees Bk. (1868), 404. I wold my master were a watt & my boke a wyld Catt, & a brase of grehowndis in his toppe.

3 c. 1532.  Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 913. The watte, le leurart.

4 1556.  J. Heywood, Spider & Fly, xxiv. 25. Neuer was there yet, any larke or wat, Before hawke or dog, flatter darde or squat.

5 1592.  Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 697. Poore wat farre off vpon a hill, Stands on his hinder-legs with listning eare.

6 1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xxiii. 331. The man whose vacant mind prepares him to the sport, The Finder sendeth out, to seek the nimble Wat.

7 1692.  R. L’Estrange, Fables, ccclxxxvii. 360. Had he not better have born Wat’s Nibling of his Plants and Roots now, then the Huntsman’s … Laying of his Garden Wast.

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