weely
English edit
Etymology edit
From weel + -y. Alternatively, a continuation of Middle English wili, whily, from Old English wylie, a rare variant of wylige, wilige (“basket”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
weely (plural weelies)
- A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
- 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
- They are taken generally, by a little Sayne net: specially the Eeles in weelies
Further reading edit
- “weely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.