What is the source of information about the Scots word? What is the date of its usage?
Could it be a place where the oxen wallow?
The similar Scots word Wammle can mean both "1.
Of the stomach or its contents: to roll, to stir uneasily, rumble queasily …” and 2.
"Of persons and animals: to roll about, to wriggle, writhe, slither, wallow …”
Stephen
A twelfth-century description of land in Assington (Sf) has quoddam wambling in parco de Asintone quod est terra duorum boum(Kalendar of Abbot Samson, ed. Davis p.68).
So there's a connection to two cows, but what exactly was it?
Keith