thowel

• thowl

See thole; other dialectal forms include thoal.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /θəʊ.(w)əl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /θoʊ.(w)əl/

thowel (plural thowels)

1. A tholepin in a boat.
2. A rowlock.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 247–248:

     […] I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels.

• “thowel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• howlet