weely
noun/ˈwiːli/
Etymology From weel + -y. Alternatively, a continuation of Middle English wili, whily, from Old English wylie, a rare variant of wylige, wilige (“basket”).
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A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
- They are taken generally, by a little Sayne net: specially the Eeles in weelies1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC: