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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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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
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