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▪ I. † ˈwalter, n. Obs.
Also Sc. 6 volter, woltir, 6–7 wolter.
[f. walter v.1 Cf. welter n.]
1. The rolling of the sea in a storm.
c1400Destr. Troy 3699 So þe bre and the brethe burbelit to gedur, þat hit spirit vp spitiously fyue speire lenght With walter and wawes.
2. The act of wallowing (in mire); in quot. concr., a wallowing-place.
1577J. Knewstub Confut. (1579) To Rdr. **1 The Lord..reuengeth the shameful contempt and neglect of his truth: by sending numbers to their stie or walter againe.
3. An upset, upheaval, overthrow. lit. and fig.
1563Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 49, I began nocht litill to merwel at sa haisty and sa subdane a wolter of this warlde in sa mony grete materis. 1563Randolph Let. to Cecil 10 Apr. in Cal. Scott. Papers II. 5 Yf ther come such a volter in thys realme, that ever that man come agayne into credyt. 1596Dalrymple Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 221 He spak mekle of the Woltir of the religioune [L. de religione apud nos evertenda]. 1678Ray Prov. (ed. 2) 379 (Scott. Prov.) If I can get his cart at a wolter [1670, p. 282 at a whelming], I shall lend it a put.
▪ II. walter, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈwɒltə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 waltre, 4–7, 9 dial. walter, 5 waltyr, 6 waulter, -tre, Sc. woltre, valter, 6 Sc., 8–9 dial. wolter.
[Freq. of walt v.: see -er5. Cf. welter v.]
I. Intransitive senses.
1. To roll to and fro, move from side to side; to tumble or toss about; to lie sprawling on the ground, in mire, etc.
c1400tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 203 He feled a þing þat was myȝti and þicke waltre and turne atwixe hym and his wif. c1400Sege Jerus. 735 Litel he slepiþ, Bot walwyþ & wyndiþ & waltreþ a-boute. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 236 [She] lyys walteryng..by the fyere. 1529[see tolter v.]. 1530Palsgr. 771/1, I walter, I tumble. Je me voystre. Hye you, your horse is walterynge yonder, he wyll breake his saddell but more happe be. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 565 So greit terrour in his mynd he tuke, That all that nycht he wolterit and he woik. 1568Withals Dict. 10 b/2 Voluto, to turne or walter in myre as hogges doe. 1580Blundevil Curing Horses Dis. xcii. 41 b, The horse will forsake his meate, and lie downe and wallow, and walter vpon the ground. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1276 Sardanapalus..tumbling and lying along, waltring among a sort of concubines. 1692Ray Disc. ii. ii. (1693) 87 The Globe cannot walter or reel towards any side. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Walter, wolter, to roll and twist about on the ground; as corn laid by the wind and rain; or as one who is rolled in the mire. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., ‘The potatoes lie down and walter on the ground’, i.e. they remain lying.
b. Of a ship: To roll or be tossed on the waves.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 415 Hit waltered on þe wylde flod, went as hit lyste. 1560Rolland Seven Sages 18 Upon the sey thay sufferit great perrell,..Walterand with wind out throw þe mudy wawis.
c. Of the stomach: To be upset or disturbed.
1540J. Heywood Four PP. 600 It..maketh your stomake sore to walter.
2. fig. To wallow or revel in (prosperity, pleasure, sin).
c1375Cursor M. 4503 (Fairf.) Man þat walteres [Cott. weltres] in his welis. 1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 62 They are..lyke to brut beastes and swyne, Waltrynge in synfull wretchednes. 1553Bradford Serm. Repent. (1574) H ij b, Trow you that such a one..wyl willingly walter & wallow in his wylful lusts, pleasure, and fantasies? a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 76 If a man..walter in filthines like a Swyne. a1598Rollock Serm. xi. (1616) 208 The naturall man waltering and wallowing in sinne.
3. To swing or float to and fro. Also fig.
c1350Will. Palerne 947 Þou waltres al in a weih & wel y vnderstande whider þe belaunce bremliest bouwes al-gate. c1425Cast. Persev. 2663 in Macro Plays 156 Nedys, my loue must on hym lende, With Coueytyse to walter & wave. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 1936 And some I make in a rope to totter and walter. c1555? Coverdale Carrying Christ's Cross iii. 29 The aungels gatheryng together y⊇ wicked wretches (which now walter and walowe as the worlde and wynde bloweth) to be tyed in bondels, and cast into the fier. 1560Rolland Seven Sages 44 He signifyis a mannis persoun, That walteris betuix wynde and waw Into this warld ay vp and doun.
4. To move or go unsteadily; to totter, stumble. Also, to go with a rolling gait, to waddle.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles ii 189 So lymed leues were leyde all aboute,..þat where so þey walkid, þey waltrid dounwardis. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. ii, He [Silenus] was, att that tyme, in Frygye, waltrynge and swaruyng what of wyn and of age. 1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 186 [An adder and her young] She..suffereth them to hang upon her back, and so waltereth to her hole. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray, Wolter, as welter [‘to goe aside, or heavily, as Women with Child, or Fat People’ (Ray 1691)].
5. Of waves: To surge or roll high. Of water, etc.: To flow, gush. Of a humour: To wander or ooze about the body.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 142 Þe wawes ful wode waltered so hiȝe. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 684 Wel much was þe warme water þat waltered of yȝen. 1555T. Phaer æneid ii. (1558) E ij, The fomy floud..waltring down the vales. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 23 The unnaturall or evell sweate is it that..waltereth only about the harte. Ibid. 36 Somtyme growe apostemes in the loynes of humors that are waltering and straying in the body. 1577J. Bishop Beautif. Blossoms xvii. 84 Streames of teares waltering downe his cheekes.
II. Transitive senses.
6. To roll about, toss to and fro. Also fig. Also refl., to sprawl or wallow (on the ground, in the mire, etc.).
c1375Cursor M. 21113 Quik þai haue his bodi flaine & waltered him in barli chaf. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 204 And he [sc. the demoniac], cast doun in þe erþe, was waltrid and froþid [Vulg. Mark ix. 19 volutabatur spumans]. c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) ii, Þei smyteth þe grounde with the foote and walters hem as an horse. c1450Cov. Myst. 342 The fete..ar ful wete, Walterid in blood. 1508Fisher Penit. Ps. Wks. (1876) 204 Euen as an hors the softer myre or claye he waltreth hymselfe in the more easely he lyeth. Ibid. 358 The Sowe..waultering hir self in the myerie puddle. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 23 Quhill the cuntrie was walterit to and fra in this maner. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 92 In seas far waltred, he groyleth.
7. To overturn, overthrow.
1571Sir J. Maitland in Satir. Poems. Reform. xxvii. 71 Bewar! we may be walteritt [v.rr. weltred, wolterit] or we witt, And lykwayis Loss our land and libertie.
8. dial. uses (see quots.).
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Walter, Wolter, to cause extreme fatigue... ‘I am right-on woltered out, by my day's work’. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Walthered, mired or stuck in a boggy road, or swampy place. ‘Whiles in the mornin' I find the branches of the trees all walthered and smashed’, broken down into the mire.
Hence ˈwaltering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 247 A wylde walterande whal..bi þat bot flotte. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. viii, Innumerabill folk I saw flotterand in feir, Quhilk pereist on the walterand wallis weir. 1528Lyndesay Dreme 128 Quhare I mycht se The woltryng [v.r. waltreyng] of the wallis vp and doun. a1547Surrey æneid ii. 267 Whoes waltring tongs did lick their hissing mouthes. 1552Huloet, Waltrynge or full of wallowynge, volutabundus. c1557Abp. Parker Ps. xxxvi. 99 So pride hath hym puft by his waltering wealth. 1578H. Wotton Courtlie Controv. 44 As a man dizzie with the waltering of a vessel, tossed by the hollowe waues of raging seas. 1588T. Hughes Misfort. Arthur iii. Chor. 42 The windes, that sweepe the waltering waues.
▪ III. † ˈwalter, v.2 Sc. Obs. rare—1.
trans. To be without, lack.
1463Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869) I. 21 The said Johne [sall remane] at the hous of the said myln and vesy thame daylie at thai walter nocht na behuifull thing to thame that he aucht to find, and gif at thai walter acht in his default, sa that thairthrow the myle be ydill [etc.].
▪ IV. walter
obs. form of water. |