Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A whirlpool.
  • noun A kind of trap or snare for fish.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Obs. or Scot. Well.
  • noun obsolete A whirlpool.
  • obsolete A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A whirlpool.

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  • basket for catching fish

    May 30, 2009