a. Sc. = WATERTIGHT.
1550. Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1894), I. 19. To keip the bwyth wattir fast with haile tymmyr, lofting, and flure.
a. 1568. Satir. Poems Reform., xlvi. 16. To pomp als oft as ȝe may haill, Ȝeill nevir hald hir watter-fast.
1574. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876), 20. For helping to repair the said kirk and haldyng of it wattirfast.
1898. Ld. E. Hamilton, Mawkin of Flow, xviii. 254. The shieling’s well biggit and as waterfast as a sowen-tub.
