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weel
Word definitions for weel in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weel \Weel\, n. [AS. w[=ae]l. [root]147.] A whirlpool. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deep pool," Old English wæl "whirlpool, eddy; pool; sea," cognate with West Frisian wiel , Old Low Frankish wal , Middle Dutch wael , German wehl , wehle .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A whirlpool. 2 A kind of trap for catching fish; a weely.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
WEEL could refer to: Weel , a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England WCNF , a radio station (700 AM) licensed to Dothan, Alabama, United States, known as WEEL from 2007 to 2010 WVKF , a radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Shadyside, Ohio, United ...
Usage examples of weel.
And they say that you are amaist as weel as ever--but to me you look twelve years older!
This is the counsel of ane that wishes ye weel, you and that denty lass at your elbuck.
Weel, round came the Revolution, and it had like to have broken the hearts baith of Dougal and his master.
I wad send ye a bit venison, but ye wadna take it weel maybe, for Killbuck catched it.
I may weel do, since nither of my grandsons have deigned tae learn it.
We gat on varry weel for a bit, An aw stuck to mi wark like a man, An enjoying mi hooam, thear awd sit, As a chap at works hard nobbut can.
I hope with gods helpe that I may be abble to rejoys with you on the earth and In heaven lets meet when will I am determined to never stope praying, not in this earth and I hope to praise god In glory there weel meet to part no more forever.
An tho' old crackt voices dooant saand varry sweet, He knows varry weel what we mean.
However, it is either my strength failing, that I canna won sae weel through the snaw, or I never saw it lying sae deep before.
And Sir John, when he had riped the turret weel, led my gudesire into the dining-parlour, and took him by the hand, and spoke kindly to him, and said he was sorry he should have doubted his word, and that he would hereafter be a good master to him, to make amends.
I cannot say I thought he brought out the Gospel authorities half sae weel as our minister-our minister is thought the best divine and the best preacher atween this and Edinburgh--Dinna ye think he was likely to be right?
Ful fressh and newe hir geere apiked was, Hir knyves were chaped noght with bras, But al with silver wroght ful clene and weel, Hir girdles and hir pouches everydeel.
Weel, then, why are they wastin' ye on silly things like door-guarding, when ye might be makin' yourself useful smelling gouty toes and pustulant arseholes?
Now be we caytyves, as it is wel seene- Thanked be Fortune, and hir false wheel, That noon estat assureth to be weel.
And they hym sworen his axyng, faire and weel, And hym of lordship and of mercy preyde, And he hem graunteth grace, and thus he seyde: "To speke of roial lynage and richesse, Though that she were a queene or a princesse, Ech of you bothe is worthy doutelees To wedden whan tyme is, but nathelees I speke as for my suster Emelye, For whom ye have this strif and jalousye: Ye woot yourself, she may nat wedden two Atones, though ye fighten everemo!