felwe

• fely (Early Scots); felowe (Lincolnshire); vely (West Midland)

Inherited from Old English felge, the oblique singular of felg (although modern English felk may continue the nominative), from Proto-West Germanic *felgu, from Proto-Germanic *felgō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlwə/, /ˈfɛlɔu̯(ə)/, /ˈfɛluː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛliː/ (Northern), /ˈfɛliː(ə)/, /ˈvɛliː(ə)/ (West Midland)

felwe (plural felwes or (West Midlands) felien)

1. (usually in the plural) A felloe or felly; a curved segment forming forming part of the rim of a wheel.

• English: felloe, felly (dialectal felk)
• Middle Scots: fillie, phillie
  • Scots: fillie

• “felwes, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fely, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.