Sc. Obs. Also 6 vall, wal. [var. spelling (with silent ll) of WAW sb.] A wave (of the sea).
c. 1480. Wyntoun’s Cron., I. vii. 399 (MS. E.). Of wellis wawerit wallis wid.
c. 1480. Henryson, Paddock & Mouse, 180. The watter is the warld, ay welterand With mony wall of trubulatioun.
c. 1500. Lancelot, 1316. Thi schip, that goth apone the stormy vall.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. viii. 60. Within the havin goith loune, but wind or wall.
1549. Compl. Scot., 39. The suelland vallis of the brym seye.
1599. Alex. Hume, Hymns, vii. 89. The waltering wals, and raging windie blast.
