dial. Also 8 wissum, 9 wysan. [f. WISE sb.2, after RISOM.] = WIZLE.

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1688.  [see WIZLE].

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c. 1710.  Celia Fiennes, Diary (1888), 136. The greenes they [sc. the country people] Call Wissums and on these wissums the Deer Brouse in ye winter.

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1888.  H. Wedgwood, in N. & Q., 7th Ser. VI. 314. In North Staffordshire … the labouring man would speak of cranberry-wysans, bilberry-wysans. The runners of strawberries would be strawberry-wysans, and potato-halms were potato-wysans.

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