v. Now dial. Forms: 6 whewl, 7, 9 whule, 9 wewl. [Echoic.] intr. To cry plaintively, moan, whine, howl. Hence Whewling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
a. 1560. Phaër, Æneid, X. (1562), Dd 4 b. Whiles whewling sad he sat.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VII. 497. Lamenting for his sonnes mischaunce with whewling in the Aire.
1609. Old Meg of Herefordsh., Ded. (1816). Tweire-pipe that famous Southren Taberer … who for whuling hath beene famous through the Globe of the world.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., XII. 135. For here, the whuling Scylla, shrowds her face.
1616. S. S., Honest Lawyer, II. D 4 b. A Virgin … Could not with whuling nay’s be so peruerse. Ibid., IV. H 4 b. You know the Iayle. Ha you neuer bin hir’d to yawle for the whole prison? and whule to the passengers?
1847. Halliwell, Whule, to whine; to howl. Suffolk.
1895. E. Anglian Gloss., Wewling, a plaintive note in crying, commonly with a view to excite charity.
