Obs. or dial. A gadily.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 937. This Fly [Curvicauda] the English in their proper tongue call a Whame and a Burrell-fly.
1775. Romans, Florida, App. 51, note. Tabona [sic] is Spanish for a whame or horsefly.
1829. Glover’s Hist. Derby, I. 177. Oestrus Bovis, Whame or Burrel Fly.
1881. Blackmore, Christowell, ii. He mistook a large stone-fly … for a genuine oestrus, a bot-fly, whame, or tabanus.
