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Middle English
Etymology
Perhaps related to whisk (“bunch of twigs, hair”).[1] Cognate to Dutch wisp, dialectal Danish visp, Swedish visp, Norwegian Bokmål visp, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
wyspe (plural wyspes or wyspe)
- A package, stick or pile of straw, a wisp:
- Such a bundle used to clean livestock of dirt.
- (rare) Such a bundle shaped into a circle or torus.
- (rare) Such a bundle lighted afire and used as a light source.
- (glassblowing, obsolete, rare) A fifteenth-century unit for measuring window glass.
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