Wit"tol (?), n. [Said to be for white tail, and so called in allusion to its white tail; but cf. witwal.]
1. Zool.
The wheatear.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.
[Obs.]
Shak.
© Webster 1913.