WAYZGOOSE, a term for the annual outing of English printers and their employees. It may be a misspelling for "wase goose," from vase, M.E. for "sheaf," thus meaning harvest goose, the "stubblegoose" mentioned by Chaucer in "The Cook's Prologue." It is more probable that the merry-making was an imi tation of the grand goose-feast annually held at Waes, in Brabant, at Martinmas. Certainly the goose has long ago parted company
with the printers' wayzgoose, which is usually held in July.