The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dowle \Dowle\, n. [Cf. OF. douille soft. Cf. Ductile.]
Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
--Shak.
No feather, or dowle of a feather.
--De Quincey.
Wiktionary
n. feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
Usage examples of "dowle".
Blast picked Dowling up and slammed him down on the dirt as if it were a professional wrestler with the strength of a demon.
General Abner Dowling had never expected to command the defense of Ohio from the great metropolis of Bucyrus.
And, by all appearances, Dowling knew just as little about this new, fast-moving style of warfare.
Confederates broke through to Lake Erie, the War Department would probably put General Dowling out to pasture.
Whatever Abner Dowling was yelling about on the field telephone must have happened in these parts.
Abner Dowling was the first, to say nothing of the most obvious, target the committee had chosen.
If John Abell and his fellow high foreheads were to help the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War ease Dowling out .
Abner Dowling sat back down and returned to the work MacArthur had interrupted.
One of the few things Dowling found inadequate in the enormous plan was its appreciation of Confederate strength.
Listening to rain drum on the roof of the Ford, Dowling found the omission unfortunate.
He was already struggling back to his feet again by the time Dowling and the driver came over to him.
That let Dowling see that Confederate bombers had hit it even harder than Philadelphia.
Built more along the lines of a refrigerator, Dowling had to make do with competence.
Abner Dowling slogged through freezing Tennessee mud from his tent toward the farmhouse where the general commanding the U.
For one of the few times in his life, Dowling wished he were seventy-five pounds lighter.