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Tewel

Tewel \Tew"el\, n. [OE. tuel, OF. tuiel, tuel, F. tuyau; of Teutonic origin; cf. Dan. tud, D. tuit, Prov. G. zaute. Cf. Tuy[`e]re.]

  1. A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.
    --Chaucer.

  2. The tuy[`e]re of a furnace.

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tewel

n. 1 (tcx now rare English) A vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows. 2 (tcx obsolete English) The anus or butt.

Wikipedia
Tewel

Tewel is a hamlet located approximately two miles west of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire on the Auchenblae Road in Northeast Scotland. It consists of:

  • Tewel Farm
  • Tewel School and Schoolhouse
  • Four semi detached houses
  • One cottage (derelict)

Usage examples of "tewel".

WWII, Tewels had served in the European theater as a supply sergeant for a motorized transport outfit.

At fifty-nine, Tewels was still a nationally ranked seniors squash player.

I wanted to do some reconnaissance work on Tewels to see where to hit them.

Simmons and I put a twenty-four tag on Tewels, and he kept us busier than a onelegged man at an ass-kicking contest.

I managed to stand three feet away from Tewels, sipping sparkling French water and lime and listening to him discuss the New Wave directors, whatever they might be.

A young man, who looked as if he had a steel lump under his arm, drove Tewels around in his Bentley.

I had to do, business as usual in my crappy line of work, made Tewels kneel, his fingers laced behind his head, his forehead leaning against the bookcase, then I made sure the dead were really dead.

By the time I had dragged him onto the porch and up to the front door, Tewels had made the first step.

I dumped the driver inside the door, then went back out for Tewels and carried him into the back office.

I took several pictures of Tewels and each of the dead bodies, with the maps and the lists and the money, with the sleeping face of the EPA official, used all the film.

The Tewels boy had caught three passes and scored the winning touchdown on a reverse.

When I called the hew director of security at EQCS, I congratulated him on his promotion, then we made our deal, slightly different from the one I had made with Tewels, now that I had seen the dump sites marked on the maps, but business as usual.