different between tewel vs tetel

English

Alternative forms

• tuel

Etymology

From Middle English tuwel, from Old French tueil, tuel, tudel (“tube, pipe”) (whence modern French tuyau), from Vulgar Latin *t?ta, from Frankish *th?ta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeut? (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutan? (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese tudel, from the same Germanic source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tju??l/

Noun

tewel (plural tewels)

1. (now rare) A 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
   • 1846, The Repertory of Patent Inventions and Other Discoveries, page 128:

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

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

     […] 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).

2. (obsolete) The anus, rectum or posterior.

Anagrams

• Welte, tweel

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• dewel

Etymology

From English devil.

Noun

tewel

1. devil.
2. ghost; spirit; soul.
3. reflection; shadow.

English

Noun

tetel (plural tetels)

1. A large African antelope (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora) with widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

Synonyms

• Tora hartebeest

Anagrams

• ettle

Italian

Noun

tetel (invariable)

1. Tora hartebeest

   Synonym: alcelafo torà