waiour (c.1290)
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waiour (c.1290)

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[KJ]

  FEW:  *wað 17,438b, 17,440a Gdf:  gayoir 4,249c GdfC: ∅ TL: waiour 11,835 DEAF:  gué (wayour) G1545 DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  wayour n.   MED:  waiour n.  DMLBS:  waiura 3724c
vayour;  waier,  wayer,  wayour,  wayur  

The word used as a gloss to vadator in TLL ii 170 is problematic in that vadator appears in a list of words without any context. The only other example of Latin vadator attested to date is derived from vadari + -tor, with the meaning ‘one who stands surety, guarantor’ (DMLBS 3582b). However the AN glossator seems to have read vadator here as vadare + -tor, and constructed an agential derivative of the verb waier.

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1 geog.livestockequit. trough or watering-place for animals: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Einz qu’il seent enbeverez. Mes au seir serrunt waez. Vayour i ad proprement, [...] Dunt les beofs e les chivaus sunt vaés, E de tutes autres bestes sunt lavez  90
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Acunes nusances sount [...], si cum de encrés de curtilage sour commune, ou de wayour et enbeverer as bestes  i 279
( 1330-60 )  a complaint is made that un Mundy de Wodestoke at fet graunt intrusioun en sa foreste [...] e at enclose un graunt wayer de ewe que fust necessarie a ces bestes savages e a tote la communauté de payis  SC 8/195/9726
2 livestockequit.occupation person responsible for washing or watering cattle and horses (?): 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  vadator: wayur  ii 170
gué  waier  waious 
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