whil

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English whilen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪɫ/
• Homophone: will

Verb

whil (present participle whileen)

1. to turn upside down

Related terms

• wheel

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78