Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pipe; a funnel, as for smoke.
- noun Same as
twyer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.
- noun The tuyère of a furnace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
vent orchimney . - noun obsolete The
anus , especially of ahorse .
Etymologies
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From Old French tuel ‘tube, pipe’ (French tuyau), cognate with Spanish and Portuguese tudel, from Proto-Romance.
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Examples
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A _tewel (tuyau, or tuyal_, Fr.) is a _pipe_; and is here used
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Moxon, in his "Mechanick Exercises," defines the _tewel_ to be that _pipe_ in a smith's forge into which the nose of the bellows is introduced; and in a
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
sionnach commented on the word tewel
a chimney; the rectum or anus of a horse.
February 11, 2008