tuwel

Middle English

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Noun

tuwel (plural tuwels)

1. tewel
   • late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Summoner's Tale’, in The Canterbury Tales:

     And whan þis sike man felte þis frere
     Aboute his tuwel grope þere and heere,
     Amydde his hand he leet þe frere a fart

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