dwile

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Etymology

From Dutch dweil (floorcloth).

Noun

dwile (plural dwiles)

  1. (archaic) A cloth for wiping or cleaning.
    • 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
      For sixpence in that small nice inn, I had a glass of ale, my boots cleaned, and the excrescences cut off, my clothes wiped with a dwile, and then passed over with a brush, and was myself thanked over and over again.
  2. The beer-soaked cloth thrown in the game of dwile flonking.

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