tewel

plural tewels · alternative tuel

1. archaicA vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.

   1825 September 29, patent for a Forge and furnace water back and tewel, recorded in A List of Patents Granted by the United States

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   Lamasure, M. Le Petit, French patent of, for a double-case furnace tewel supplied with water, &c., xiv. (3d s.) 29

   1846, The Repertory of Patent Inventions and Other Discoveries, page 128

   Also, there are no obvious differences in the proportion of tewel pieces with attached slag in the two furnace types.

   1987, Ian Hodder, The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings, →ISBN, page 5

   […] the ore-smelting furnace is like a pregnant woman. […] For example, the furnace is described as the reproductive organs of a woman in one of the lessons in the Venda domba ritual while the tewel pipes are described as being symbolically male (Blacking 1969, p. 167).

   2014, The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns, →ISBN, page 502

2. obsoleteThe anus, rectum or posterior.

   It healeth also cuts, and swelling of the tewel, or fundament, […]

   c. 1550, Albertus Magnus, The Book of Secrets

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   Falconers use many queer but ancient terms of the condition and ailment of birds of prey. Mr Cooper makes sense out of all that. 'Snurt' seems to me an entirely appropriate name for a runny nose, […]. When next I am constipated I shall complain that I have something wrong with my ‘tewel’.

   1978, Leslie Brown June, “Foreword to the First Edition”, in Birds of Prey: Health and Disease, page xi

1. A hamlet west of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO8285).