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tewel

/ˈtjuːəl/

tewel noun: a vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.

Noun

tewel (plural tewels)

  1. (archaic) A vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.
    • 1825 September 29, patent for a Forge and furnace water back and tewel, recorded in A List of Patents Granted by the United States
    • Lamasure, M. Le Petit, French patent of, for a double-case furnace tewel supplied with water, &c., xiv. (3d s.) 291846, The Repertory of Patent Inventions and Other Discoveries, page 128
  2. (obsolete) The anus, rectum or posterior.
    • It healeth also cuts, and swelling of the tewel, or fundament, […]c. 1550, Albertus Magnus, The Book of Secrets
    • Falconers use many queer but ancient terms of the condition and ailment of birds of prey. Mr Cooper makes sense out of all that. 'Snurt' seems to me an entirely appropriate name for a runny nose, […]. When next I am constipated I shall complain that I have something wrong with my ‘tewel’.1978, Leslie Brown June, “Foreword to the First Edition”, in Birds of Prey: Health and Disease, page xi

Proper noun capitalized: Tewel

Tewel

  1. A hamlet west of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO8285).

Forms of tewel

pluraltewels
alternative formtuel

Origin of tewel

From Middle English tuwel, from Old French tueil, tuel, tudel (“tube, pipe”) (whence modern French tuyau), from Vulgar Latin *tūta, from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese tudel, from the same Germanic source.

Words that rhyme with tewel

Questions about tewel

What does tewel mean?
Tewel means a vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.
What part of speech is tewel?
Tewel can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tewel?
Tewel is pronounced /ˈtjuːəl/.
What is the plural of tewel?
The plural of tewel is tewels.

Words near tewel in the dictionary

  1. Tewaris
  2. tewart
  3. tewarts
  4. Tewas
  5. tewed
  6. tewel
  7. Tewell
  8. Tewells
  9. tewels
  10. Tewes
  11. Teweses

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