Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A whirlpool.
- n. A kind of trap or snare for fish.
- n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a kind of eel-pot or fish-pot, composed of strips or slats with open spaces between. Sometimes the number of these slats is mentioned in the blazon.
- A Scotch form of well.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A whirlpool.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Obs. or Scot. Well.
- n. obsolete A whirlpool.
- obsolete A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
Examples
“_ '' _Weel, weel_, 'this excellent woman exclaimed, as she turned to her friend beside her,' _weel, weel, if there's one text in a 'the Buik waur than anither, yon man is sure to tak' it! _ ”
“If aw understand it reight, iverybody's to be eddicated to sich a pitch, wol they'll be able to tak a sitiwation awther as a clark at a bank or a clark at a chapel, an 'yo know as weel as aw do' at ther's some fowk yo connot eddicate.”
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
“Aw know as weel as can be, for he allus taks some wrang-heeaded noation when he's baan to get a bellyful o 'ale.”
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
“It seems old Sucksmith had been drinkin tother day, an 'he must ha getten moor nor he could carry, an' tha knows as weel as me 'at he can sup moor nor what ud mak some fowk druffen, an' walk as steady as if he'd swallow'd a church, steeple an 'all; an' he ligg'd him daan o 'some sheets o' wool 'at wor bi th' rooad side, an 'as Musty wor goain past he saw him, an' soa he thowt he'd have”
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
“On the other hand he writes 'weel' for 'well,' because that word is complete in its change, and may be very closely expressed by the double _e_.”
“On the other hand he writes "weel" for "well," because that word is complete in its change, and may be very closely expressed by the double _e_.”
“Page 407 -- Changed "weel" to "well" in -- "You may as well sit down and tell us.”
“I min 'weel' at he said the only thing 'at made agen the viouw I tiuk -- though I spakna o' the partic'lar occasion -- was, 'at naebody ever h'ard tell o' the ghaist o 'an alderman, wha they say's some grit Lon'on man, sair gien to the fillin' o 'the seck. ”
““You weel come parrty weeth us, you are the preencess.””
“They could do this story weel, as far as the Cir El and Conner goes, they could substitute other Characters or ignore that part of the story”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘weel’.
-
Hey! L...
for the same
ichthyarchy, thalassic, nip-cheese, cerement, manavalins, rockweed, polder, semipalmate, blue peter, curragh, crowfoot, cat and 160 more...
-
summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
-
List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
Other similar lists can be found on Wordnik, especially that...seiant, duciper, bourdon, pouch, scrip, staff, ananas, besant d'argent, roundle, roundel, argent, allocamelus and 743 more...
-
words found on Cute Overload
moishe, prosh, perf, muzzlepuff, kittentastic, hedgealarm, comfertubul, nosicle, exer-ball, dewd, redonk, submishe and 37 more...
-
perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for weel.
ambyellen basket for catching fish May 30, 2009