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† way-leet Obs.
Forms: 3 weienlæte, weynleate, 4 weonlete, weielot; 4 weilot, 5 weylate, -lete, 6 waileete, 6–7 wayleet(e.
[Partly repr. OE. weᵹᵹelǽte, partly weᵹa, weᵹena ᵹelǽte: see way n.1 and leet n.3
The forms with -lot, -late show obscuration of vowel in the second syllable due to absence of stress.]
A place where two or more roads meet.
For two-, three-, four-way-leet see leet n.3
c1000O.E. Glosses (Napier) i. 4716 Competalia, weᵹᵹelæte. c1205Lay. 15509 Summe heo wenden to þan wude, summe to weien-læten [c 1275 weynleates]. 13..in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 341 Ren a-boute bi þe strete, Bi wey and bi weonlete. 1388Wyclif Gen. xxxviii. 14 Sche sat in the weilot [Vulg. in bivio itineris] that ledith to Tampna. ― 2 Sam. i. 20 Nether telle ȝe in the weilottis of Ascolon [Vulg. in compitis Ascalonis]. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xlviii. (1869) 161 A verrey dunghep in a weylate, ther eche at his time may come to make filthe. 1450Myrc Par. Pr. 748 (ed. 1868) Al þat leyen her childeren at eny wey⁓letes or at eny chirch dores or at eny other comyn weyes and leveth hem. |