wadset
/ (ˈwɒdˌsɛt) Scots law /
noun
another name for mortgage
verb -sets, -setting or -setted
(tr)
to pledge or mortgage
Word Origin for wadset
C14:
wad, a Scottish variant of
wed +
set
1; compare Old English
wedd settan to deposit a pledge
Words nearby wadset
Example sentences from the Web for wadset
The estates of Glengyle were pledged, or, as it is called in Scotland, "under a contract of wadset."
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 |Mrs. Thomson