Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wallet

Wallet , noun

[Old English walet, probably the same word as Old English 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. — Shakespeare