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newel

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈnjuː.əl/(UK)
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/ˈnjuː.əl/(UK) · /ˈnu.əl/(US) · /ˈnju.əl/(US)

Definition of newel

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
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noun

  1. Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
  2. Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
    “We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.”
  3. (obsolete)A novelty; a new thing.
    “1882: Edmund Spenser (Alexander Balloch Grosart, ed) The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser He was so enamoured with the newel.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English nowel, *newel, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of noil and noyau.

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