Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wallet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wallet \Wal"let\, n. [OE. walet, probably the same word as OE.
watel a bag. See {Wattle}.]
1. A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for
carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a
beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack.
[His hood] was trussed up in his walet. --Chaucer.
2. A pocketbook for keeping money about the person.
3. Anything protuberant and swagging. ``Wallets of flesh.''
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wallet
n : a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money [syn:
{billfold}, {notecase}, {pocketbook}]
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