waulk

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating. transitive
    — The frame on which the cloth is waulked is a board some twelve to twenty-four feet long and about two feet broad, grooved lengthwise along its surface.

词形变化

waulks present,singular,third-person waulking participle,present waulked participle,past waulked past

词源

From Middle English walken, from Old English wealcian (“to roll up; muffle up”), from Proto-West Germanic *walkōn, from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about; full (cloth)”).
Cognate with Scots waulk (“to full”), Dutch walken (“to full”), German walken (“to full”), Danish valke (“to full”), Swedish valka (“to full”). Doublet of walk.
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