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Definition of Sewels
1. sewel [n] - See also: sewel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sewels
Literary usage of Sewels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Albany by Joel Munsell (1850)
"The cultivation of the Dutch language wa$ especially promoted by grammarians,
including, besides the above-mentioned Lambert Ten Kate, sewels, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"Dictionaries were produced by Kramer, sewels, Hal- ma, Moerbeek, Weidenbach and
Weiland. In philology, history, geography, mathematics, natural philosophy ..."
3. The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam and Certain Official Papers and Correspondence by Rufus Putnam (1903)
"... at sewels point it was my good fortune to be at this place when Gen1 ...
General Lee Spook much in favor of the works at sewels point, compared with ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"The cultivation of the Dutch language was especially promoted by grammarians,
including, besides the above-mentioned Lambert Ten Kate, sewels, ..."
5. Cattle, Sheep, and Deer by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (1872)
"His lordship also remarks upon the importance of sewels, that is, lengths of cord.
on spindles, with turkey feathers knotted on to them at the interval of a ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"The cultivation of the Dutch language was especially promoted by grammarians,
including, besides the above-mentioned Lambert Ten Kate, sewels, ..."