Definition of Dowles

1. dowle [n] - See also: dowle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowles

dowerless
dowers
dowery
dowf
dowfness
dowie
dowier
dowiest
dowing
dowitcher
dowitchers
dowl
dowlas
dowlases
dowle
dowles (current term)
dowless
dowlne
dowlnes
dowlney
dowls
down
down(a)
down(p)
down-
down-and-out
down-and-outer
down-and-outers
down-at-heel
down-bow

Literary usage of Dowles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Bewdley: With Concise Accounts of Some Neighbouring Parishes by John Richard Burton (1883)
"In 1534 dowles and Northwood are collectively valued as a Shropshire estate ... 6^d. as arising from similar sources, but mention dowles only as the estate ..."

2. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1905)
"... Valet and dowles Valet (boundaries given), in the lordship of ... in the parish of dowles, cos. Wore, and Salop, in tenure of Wm. More,—Major ..."

3. A History of the Weald of Kent: With an Outline of the Early History of the by Robert Furley (1874)
"The Romans appear to have understood embanking better than drainage, for the dowles, being much lower than the adjoining lands, were only partially drained, ..."

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