dwile

plural dwiles · alternative dwyle

1. archaicA cloth for wiping or cleaning.

   For sixpence in that small nice inn, I had a glass of ale, my boots cleaned, and the excrescences cut off, my clothes wiped with a dwile, and then passed over with a brush, and was myself thanked over and over again.

   1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales

2. The beer-soaked cloth thrown in the game of dwile flonking.