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Definition of Thowel
1. n. A thole pin.
Definition of Thowel
1. an oar pin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thowel
Literary usage of Thowel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"THOLE, THOLE-PIN, OR thowel [from the Anglo-Saxon thol]. ... This was superseded
by the swinging thowel, or metal crutch, in 1819, and by admiralty order at ..."
2. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1850)
"The use of a single thowel-pin and a leather thong for n sling is universal in
the east, and the superiority it possesses over the double ..."
3. A Lad of the O'Friels by Seumas MacManus (1903)
"Big Jim McDade, who was steersman, he jumped for the thowel- pins Pat had cut,
and slung them out of the boat —and that instant the storm went down as sud- ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Robert Elliott, Pitman gan ti Parliament. THOUT, a thought, a small quantity of
anything. <; Aa thoul much "—was ashamed or bashful. thowel, a thole-pin. ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... takes that much of his exertion, merely to bring it home to the thowel next
to him ; and until it once touches that, it does not send the boat forward. ..."
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