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Tewel

//ˈtjuːəl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A hamlet west of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO8285).
Noun
  1. 1
    A vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows. archaic

    "1825 September 29, patent for a Forge and furnace water back and tewel, recorded in A List of Patents Granted by the United States"

  2. 2
    The anus, rectum or posterior. obsolete

    "It healeth also cuts, and swelling of the tewel, or fundament, […]"

Etymology

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.

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