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dwiles

dwiles is the plural of dwile.

Meaning of dwile

Noun

dwile (plural dwiles)

  1. (archaic) A cloth for wiping or cleaning.
    • For sixpence in that small nice inn, I had a glass of ale, my boots cleaned, and the excrescences cut off, my clothes wiped with a dwile, and then passed over with a brush, and was myself thanked over and over again.1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales
  2. The beer-soaked cloth thrown in the game of dwile flonking.

Questions about dwiles

What is dwiles the plural of?
Dwiles is the plural of dwile.

Words near dwiles in the dictionary

  1. Dwight-Lloyd
  2. Dwight-Lloyds
  3. dwile
  4. dwile flonking
  5. dwile flunking
  6. dwiles
  7. DWIM
  8. dwimmer
  9. dwimmercraft
  10. dwimmers
  11. dwimmery

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