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English : metonymic occupational name for a trapper or nickname for a devious man (see Wiles, of which this is the singular form).Perhaps an Americanized spelling of Weil.
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English : variant spelling of Wiles.
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English : occupational name for a trapper (see Wiles), with the addition of Middle English man ‘man’.
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English : variant of Wiles.
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English : metonymic occupational name for a trapper or hunter, in particular someone who caught fish, especially eels, by setting up wicker traps in rivers and estuaries, from Middle English wile ‘trap’, ‘snare’ (late Old English wīl ‘contrivance’, ‘trick’ possibly of Scandinavian origin), or in some cases probably a nickname for a devious person.
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English : origin unidentified; perhaps a variant spelling of Wiles or of Wheeless.
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superl.
Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.
v. t.
To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
a.
Full of wiles; trickish; deceitful.