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thowl

thowl is the alternative form of thowel.

Meaning of thowel

Noun

thowel (plural thowels)

  1. A tholepin in a boat.
  2. A rowlock.
    • […] I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 247–248

Forms of thowl

pluralthowls

Questions about thowl

What is thowl the alternative form of?
Thowl is the alternative form of thowel.

Words near thowl in the dictionary

  1. thowel
  2. thowels
  3. thowght
  4. thowghts
  5. Thowgla Valley
  6. thowl
  7. thowless
  8. thowls
  9. thowsand
  10. thowsands
  11. thowt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thowl (page history and authors); thowel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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