> >Also, is there any modern cognate of "wadset"? > > > Something you put down as a pledge. The only very remote thing I can > thing of is 'wedge' used as Cockney slang for a fist full of notes (or > cash) put down as a bet. But somehow, you can't see Arfur Daley seeking > for a word from Scots law terms to express his meaning. > Eve McLaughlin > Thanks, Eve. No I can't! But I guess the word (and its variant "wodge") could conceivably have survived in dialect from the same source as "wad-set". We do speak of a wad of money. All most interesting. Gordon