the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The windpipe; -- called also, formerly, wesil.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The windpipe; the pipe or tube through which air passes to and from the lungs in respiration; the trachea. See trachea and larynx.
Word Usage
"Austria's a trifle warm just now, you see, what with two dead desperadoes under the Emperor's window, a sentry with a slit weasand, and those two mysterious visitors, Flashman and Starnberg, vanished none knows whither."