the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective-and-adverb. Well.
n. A whirlpool.
A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A whirlpool.
n. A kind of trap or snare for fish.
n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a kind of eel-pot or fish-pot, composed of strips or slats with open spaces between. Sometimes the number of these slats is mentioned in the blazon.
A Scotch form of well.
Word Usage
"_ '' _Weel, weel_, 'this excellent woman exclaimed, as she turned to her friend beside her,' _weel, weel, if there's one text in a 'the Buik waur than anither, yon man is sure to tak' it! _ '"