“Footnote: 'We heard the women singing as they waulked the cloth, by rubbing it with their hands and feet, and screaming all the while in a sort of chorus. At a distance the sound was wild and sweet enough, but rather discordant when you approached too near the performers.'
Lockhart's Scott, iv. 307.” [p.203]

I could now sing a verse of the song* Hatyin foani eri made in honour of Allan, the famous Captain of Clanranald, who fell at Sherrif-muir; whose servant, who lay on the field watching his master's dead body, being asked next day who that was, answered, 'He was a man yesterday.'” [p.330]
[Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol.V, 3rd ed., 1786]

*Rowing song.

Lyr Req: (waulking) tweed making music