dwile

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5

Definition of dwile

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)A cloth for wiping or cleaning.
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (archaic)A cloth for wiping or cleaning.
    “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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Etymology

From Dutch dweil (“floorcloth”).

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