Weller (Sam).

Pickwick’s factotum. His wit, fidelity, archness, and wide-àwakedness are inimitable. (Dickens Pickwick Papers.)

Tony Weller. Father of Sam. Type of the old stage-coachman; portly in size, and dressed in a broad-brimmed hat, great-coat of many capes, and top-boots. His stage-coach was his castle, and elsewhere he was as green as a sailor on terra firma. (Dickens: Pickwick Papers.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Welcher
Weld or Wold
Well Begun is Half Done
Well-beloved
Well-founded Doctor
Well of English Undefiled
Well of St. Keyne [Cornwall]
Well of Samaria
Well of Wisdom
Wells (Somersetshire)
Weller (Sam)
Wellington
Welsh Ambassador (The)
Welsh Main
Welsh Mortgage (A)
Welsh Rabbit
Welsher
Wench (A)
Werner
Werther
Werwolf (French, loup-garou)