† ˈwaithman Sc. Obs.
[a. ON. veiðimann-, veiðimað-r, f. veiði-, veið-r waith n.1]
A hunter; esp. applied to forest outlaws.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. i. 1446 Þis Menbrot [i.e. Nimrod] stalwart was of pythe And waythe man he was þar wiþ. Ibid. vii. 3526 Litil Iohun and Robert Hude Waythmen war commendit gud. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 354 The waithman, Robert Hode. |
| attrib. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 8 Me thocht a Turk of Tartary..lay forloppin in Lumbardy, ffull lang in waithman weid. 1573 Satir. Poems Reform. xxxix. 144 Quhill force did faill, and than I saw thame fane To cry ‘Peccaui’ with the waithman noit. 15.. Murning Maiden 64 in Maitl. Folio MS. (S.T.S.) I. 362 In waithman weyd Sen I ȝow find In þis wod walkand ȝour alone. |