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Sowle vs Dowle - What's the difference?

sowle | dowle |

As nouns the difference between sowle and dowle

is that sowle is obsolete spelling of lang=en while dowle is feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather.

sowle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1823, author=Giles Gossip, title=Coronation Anecdotes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The archbishop made the "proclamacion on the iiij quarters of the scaffolde, seyend in this wyse: Sirs, heere comyth Henry, kyng Henryes sone the Vth, on whose sowle God have mercy, Amen. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1882-89, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Beleeve mee nowe, I do not blame my frende To fishe in trobled streames for such a pearle, Or digge in black mowled for so ritch a myne; But to redeeme a chast and inocent sowle Forthe from the fierye jawes of lust and hell, Exprest a most comended charitye. }}

    Anagrams

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    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.