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c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 320 Now boþe her wedde lys, And play þai bi ginne.

c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 488 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 21 Lat symon on fer stand fra þe bede, and ȝe sal se, I lay wede, þe fendis craft son onhyde.

1540 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) V. 178 He harde the Kynge say..that He trestyd to gett that proffett that never Kynge of Scottes had, and He shulde other have yt, or yt shulde coste Hym the best wed He had to leysse.

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 166 It is a dear wade, when your Life lies upon last Stake.

1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) Wed, a gage or pawn; a word still retained in the Country sport, called Pray my Lord a course in your park.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 19 A Wad is a Fool's Argument. Spoken when, after hot disputing, we offer to lay a Wager that we are in the Right.

1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry IV. Gloss. Wadds, a youthful amusement, wherein much use is made of pledges.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Wadds... In this game, the players being equally divided..each lays down one or more wads or pledges at that extremity where the party, to which he belongs, chuse their station. A boundary being fixed at an equal distance from the extremities, the object is to carry off the wads from the one of these to the other.