Obs. Forms: 3 weienlæte, weynleate, 4 weonlete, weie lot; 4 weilot, 5 weylate, -lete, 6 waileete, 6–7 wayleet(e. [Partly repr. OE. weʓʓelǽte, partly weʓa, weʓena ʓelǽte: see WAY sb.1 and LEET sb.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 sb.3
c. 1000. O. E. Glosses (Napier), 1. 4716. Competalia, weʓʓelæte.
c. 1205. Lay., 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.
1388. Wyclif, Gen. xxxviii. 14. Sche sat in the weilot [Vulg. in bivio itineris] that ledith to Tampna. Ibid., 2 Sam. i. 20. Nether telle ȝe in the weilottis of Ascolon [Vulg. in compitis Ascalonis].
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. xlviii. (1869), 161. A verrey dunghep in a weylate, ther eche at his time may come to make filthe.
1450. Myrc, Par. Pr., 748 (ed. 1868). Al þat leyen her childeren at eny weyletes or at eny chirch dores or at eny other comyn weyes and leveth hem.
