Lexicographical Neighbors of Thowels
Literary usage of Thowels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"Yes, empty. And what's more,—adrift. And what's more,—with one scull gone.
And what's more,—with t'other scull jammed in the thowels and broke short off. ..."
2. Ireland Under Elizabeth by Philip O'Sullivan-Beare (1903)
"... which, when filled inside with fugitives, was also surrounded outside with
frightened people hanging from the thowels and trying to climb into the ship, ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"thowels, the wooden pins that keep the oar from slipping. They took us for French ;
our boats being fitted with ..."
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