Aul vs Caul - What's the difference?
aul | caul |
A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
* 1973 , Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1611 , Exodus, King James Version, 21:6:
(historical) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society (2012), page 182:
The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
(woodworking) A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
(culinary) (Caul fat).
As nouns the difference between aul and caul
is that aul is a village encampment in the caucasus, central asia or the southern urals or aul can be while caul is (historical) a style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.aul
English
(wikipedia aul)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* auolNoun
(en noun)- His sorrel face, his long narrow eyes and dusty boots, where he goes on his travels and what really transpires inside the lonely hide tents Out There, among the auls , out in that wind, these are mysteries they don’t care to enter or touch.
Etymology 2
Noun
(head)- and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul
Anagrams
* * * ----caul
English
(wikipedia caul)Alternative forms
* callNoun
(en noun)- Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call , / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold
- Even in the mid seventeenth century a country gentleman might regard his caul as a treasure to be preserved with great care, and bequeathed to his descendants.