wevetn.
south-western dialect.
A cobweb. †Also collective.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > hidden
pitfallc1390
wevet1499
a pad in the straw1530
shelf1560
trapfall1596
snake1611
trapdoor1648
mantrap1798
death-trap1828
nigger in the woodpile1852
—— in the woodpile1857
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web
webOE
netOE
cobweb1323
lop-webc1400
wevet1499
attercop1530
spider-web1535
caul1548
mouseweb1556
spider coba1571
twail1608
spider's cloth1638
cockweba1642
texturea1774
worm-web1822
1499–1500 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 51 To Will. Belrynger for Strykyng downe of the Weuet in the Churche.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 56 b Ye skyppe over the open Oracles of truth, and are entangled in the wevett of errour. [Cf. spider-wevet s.v. Spider 10.]
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 134 Tha church war durty.—Wevets here Hang'd danglin vrom tha ruf.
1886 W. Barnes Gloss. Dorset Dial. Wevvet, wivet, a cobweb.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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