A kind of trap used for lobsters, crayfish, etc., consisting now of a cylinder of wicker-work closed at one end and having a narrow, funnel-shaped…

A basket in which to catch or keep fish.

A wicker trap for catching fish, esp. eels.

= willy, n.1 2. Obs.

A small basket; a fish trap.

A coop or enclosure of wickerwork or spars placed in tide-ways and openings in weirs, as a trap for salmon and other fish.

A contrivance made of wickerwork used as a trap for catching fish, lobsters, etc.

A wickerwork basket used in catching fish: also called kipe, n.

A funnel-shaped wicker basket for catching salmon or eels, used esp. on the rivers Wye and Severn. Also: the middle part of such a basket, attached…

? A contrivance of wickerwork, resembling a beehive, used for catching fish. Obsolete.

= willow, n. 3, willy, n.1 2.

a wicker basket for catching fish, esp. eels, also crabs, lobsters, etc.

A wicker basket used as a trap for fish or crustaceans; a fishpot, lobster pot, etc.

A weel or fishing basket; = leap, n.2 2.

attributive and in other combinations, as leap maker, leap weel; leap-head n. Obsolete a weel. leap-hole n. Obsolete (see quot. 1642).

A fish-trap. local.

A basket for trapping fish. Cf. putcher, n.

attributive and in other combinations, as leap maker, leap weel; leap-head n. Obsolete a weel. leap-hole n. Obsolete (see quot. 1642).

A weel for catching fish. †Also Heraldry, a representation of this, borne as a charge.

On the river Severn and its tributaries: a funnel-shaped basket or wicker trap for catching salmon or eels.

(a) = fish-pot n.; (b) ‘a box about three feet square used in fishing through ice’ (Cent. Dict.).

A kind of fish trap, esp. one fitted to a weir. Now rare.

A wickerwork contrivance for catching salmon; a cruive, n.