OriginFrom Dutch dweil (“floorcloth”).
- 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”
- The beer-soaked cloth thrown in the game of dwile flonking.
Formsdwiles(plural) · dwyle(alternative)