wast
verb/wɒst/UK/wɔst/US/wɑst/
Etymology
From Late Middle English wast; equivalent to was + -est.
- inherited from wast
Definitions
second-person singular simple past indicative of be
second-person singular simple past indicative of be; wert.
- I remember the day when thou wast born.
- Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born […]
- And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Obsolete form of waist.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for wast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA