local. Also 6, 9 willger, 7 welger, 9 -ar, wolgar. [Obscurely f. wilghe, WILLOW sb.]

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  1.  = WILLOW sb. 1.

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1682–3.  in Hartland Gloss. (E.D.S.), s.v., Pd. for welgers 1s. 6d.

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1867.  W. F. Rock, Jim an’ Nell, xxxiv. 11. Nor welgars, no nor withy bans ’ll vix ther herts ner bin’ ther hans.

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  attrib.  1853.  in Rep. & Trans. Devonsh. Assoc., XXVII. 60. Let Berry the wolgar plot, 1 s. a bundle next year. Ibid. (1882), XIV. 150. Down by the wilger plot.

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  2.  = WILLOW sb. 3, WILLY sb.1 2.

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1542.  Admir. Crt. Warrant Bk. 1, 19 Aug. (MS.). Septem duodenas excipularum anglice vij dosen of shrympe leapes vulgariter voc’ willgers.

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  3.  = WILLOW sb. 4, WILLY sb.1 3.

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1871.  Daily News, 26 Aug., 4/2 (Leicester). A recommendation that more care should be exercised in the use of ‘willgers’ or ‘devils.’

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