Caul vs Waul - What's the difference?
caul | waul |
(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 a noun caul
is a style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.As a verb waul is
to wail, to cry plaintively.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.
