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plural weelies
A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. quotations examples
They are taken generally, by a little Sayne net: specially the Eeles in weelies
1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769