Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of ax.
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Examples
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It is hardly needful to add that the name was there and then duly appended to the island on the chart in red ink, which done, the company separated to sleep, and heard all night long in their dreams the crack of Braintree's "wifle" echoing among the waving woods and fertile valleys of New Swishford.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Fetch me my camouflage Pantsuit, and my twusty hunting wifle, that my pa taughs me to shoot, when I was just a young en, back in the 1950's when all small town fathers were in the vanguard of the feminist movement.
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"Warthah," said Braintree, "except my wifle to let fly at the seagulls with."
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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"But how about my wifle if we don't go home at Cwistmas?" asked
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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-- The wifle (pwaps), _Wobinson Cwusoe_, gloves, and umbwellah.
Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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