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WHETTER. See Gwiator.

WHIDDEN. See Gwin.

WHILE. See Weale.

WICKETT. From wicket, a little village; diminutive or wick. Pryce gives Wicket as the name of a place in St. Agnes.

WIDDEN. See Gwin.

WINN, WYNN, WYNNE. From Corn. gwyn (W. id.), white.

WINNINCKETT, WININCKETT. From winnick-coet, the marsh in the wood; or winnick-etha, the great marsh.

WINNOW, anc. De ST. WINNOW. From the barton and manor of St. Winnow or St. Winow in West hundred; or from Trewinnow in Creed, the dwelling on the moors (winnick, a marsh). According to Tonkin, the tutelar saint of the parish of St. Winow was St. Winnocus (the St. Vinoc of Moreri), a native of Armorica.

WINSOR. From Winsor in Cubert, or Winsor in Pelynt; which Pryce renders the marsh frequented by heath-cocks, grouse, or turkeys (win-zar).

WINTER. See Wintour.

WINTOUR, WINTER, WYNTER. From Gwinter in St. Keverne; from gwyn-dour, the white or fair water; or gwin-drea, the white town. Hence the surnames Vinter, Finter.

WINWICK. Probably from Winnick in Lanreath; from winnick, a marsh, a fenny or moorish place. The family are now extinct, except in the female line. It is said that the slang word "winwicked" (pronounced in the West winnicked), used in Cornwall to denote that one has been overreached, arose from the circumstance that the last

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