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S vs Caul - What's the difference?

s | caul |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun caul is

(historical) a style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    caul

    English

    (wikipedia caul)

    Alternative forms

    * call

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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:
    • 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
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • 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).

    • Anagrams

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