Whit sun week (hwitsunwek)

[ So it befelle that this Emperour cam, with a Cristene Knyght with him, into a Chirche in Egypt: and it was the Saterday in Wyttson woke. Mandeville , Travels, p. 299. whittaw (hwit'a), n. [Appar. for whittawer . ] Same as whit - tawer . Men are busy there mending the harne , under the superintendence of Mr. Goby the whittaw, otherwise sad George Eliot, Adam Bede, vi. dler.