Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pipe; a funnel, as for smoke.
  • noun Same as twyer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke.
  • noun The tuyère of a furnace.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A vent or chimney.
  • noun obsolete The anus, especially of a horse.

Etymologies

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From Old French tuel ‘tube, pipe’ (French tuyau), cognate with Spanish and Portuguese tudel, from Proto-Romance.

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  • a chimney; the rectum or anus of a horse.

    February 11, 2008