dowle

== English == === Etymology 1 === Compare Old French douille (“soft”), and English ductile. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈdaʊl/ Rhymes: -aʊl Homophone: dowel ==== Noun ==== dowle feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather a. 1859, De Quincey, Notes on Godwin Foster and Hazlitt, at page 304 in the collected works' volume of 1864. ===== Alternative forms ===== dowl, doul ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -aʊli ==== Noun ==== dowle (plural dowles) (India, historical or archaic) Alternative form of dooly (“basic Indian litter”). === References === “dowle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === dowel, lowed, owled, wolde