Middle English Dictionary Entry
wadde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wadde n. |
| Etymology | AL wadda |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A small bundle of straw used as a pad beneath a horse’s girth to prevent chafing.
Associated quotations
- (a1420) Trin-C.Dial.in Romania 32 (Trin-C B.14.40)51 : Regardez que nous eions un bon estabile chaud et bon literez tanque a la ventre de le chivalle, quar le temps est froyde; et auxci mettes waddes de paile sek desouth lour senglez.