Definition of Dowls

1. dowl [n] - See also: dowl

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowls

dowie
dowier
dowiest
dowing
dowitcher
dowitchers
dowl
dowlas
dowlases
dowle
dowles
dowless
dowlne
dowlnes
dowlney
dowls (current term)
down
down(a)
down(p)
down-
down-and-out
down-and-outer
down-and-outers
down-at-heel
down-bow
down-gyved
down-home
down-line
down-low
down-regulation

Literary usage of Dowls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geology of the Weald: (parts of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex by William Topley, Robert Etheridge, Geological Survey of Great Britain (1875)
"Where this Ree Wall bounds Appledore dowls there is a good instance of what occurs in many places on the Marsh, namely, a difference of level between two ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"They think more of dress than anything and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in a far distance and are afraid of guns. ..."

3. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"GO Ashbury—Manufacture uf dowls in joinery. JGT Campbell - Ship's propeller. DS Brown—Engines to be worked by steam or other clastic fluids, ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"They ate, they drank, the dowls were filled to the brim, and merrily the hours danced on. Loud was the bacchanalian shout, and loud the song. ..."

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