What is the name meaning of WILLY. Phrases containing WILLY
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WILLY
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Irish
Irish and Scottish equivalent of English Willy, WYLIE means "will-helmet."
Male
English
Pet form of English Will, WILLY means "will-helmet."
Girl/Female
Australian, German
Will-helmet
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Australian, British, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Swedish, Swiss
Resolute Protector; Will; Helmet; Bold; Brave; Diminutive of William; Protect
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English
English : variant spelling of Willey.English : from a pet form of the personal name Will.Americanized spelling of German Willi.
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German English
Will-helmet. Famous Bearers: poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and William...
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German
Will-helmet
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so named. Those in Cheshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire are named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’; one in Devon probably has Old English wīðig ‘willow’ as the first element, while one in Surrey has Old English wēoh ‘(pre-Christian) temple’.English : variant spelling of Willy 2.English : Isaac Willey is recorded in Boston, MA, in 1640, and went on to be one of the founders of New London, CT. His descendent Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821–1914) was one of the founders of the College of California at Berkeley in 1860.
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n.
A large wicker basket.
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A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
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Same as 1st Willow, 2.
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A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.
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The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow.
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Alt. of Willywaw
a.
A willying machine.
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A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan.
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One who works at a willying machine.