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Dowl vs Dowle - What's the difference?

dowl | dowle |

As nouns the difference between dowl and dowle

is that dowl is while dowle is feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather.

dowl

English

Noun

(-)
    • (Webster 1913)

    dowle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dowl, doul

    Noun

  • feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
    • You fools! I and my fellows
    Are ministers of fate: the elements
    Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
    Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
    Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
    One dowle that's in my plume; [...]
  • * , Notes on Godwin Foster and Hazlitt, at page 304 in the collected works' volume of 1864.
    • No feather, or dowle of a feather, but was heavy enough for him.