sb. pl. ? Obs. Also 5 waynys, 6 wanes, wannes, wandes. [Of obscure origin; the conjecture in some Dicts. that the word is a. Da. vand (:—ON. vatn) is inadmissible.
In view of the alternative designations quoted below, it seems not impossible that the word may represent OE. *waʓiend, agent-n. from waʓian to shake, toss.]
Only in Orwell wands, ‘the roadstead of Harwich harbour, now known as the Rolling Grounds and Pitching Grounds’ (R. G. Marsden, in Eng. Hist. Rev., XXI. 96, note).
14[?]. Sailing Directions (Hakl. Soc.), 12. Fro Orfordnesse to Orwell waynys the course is southwest.
1544. State Papers Hen. VIII., I. 772. Where we lay in Orwell-wanes.
a. 1554. Sir H. Willoughby, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 268. The 15 day being at Harewell … we wayed our ankers and went foorth into the wands about two miles from the towne.
