soweln.
Now dialect.† 1. A stout stick or staff; a pole, cudgel, etc. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]
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oaken towel1739
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blunt instrument1923
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. ii. vi. 88 Ealle þa consulas..Claudium þone ænne mid saglum ofbeotan.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 47 Þa com iudas an of þam twelfum & micel folk mid hym mid swurdum & sahlum [Hatton Gosp. mid sahlen].
c1150 Semi-Sax. Voc. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 549 Fustis, sowel.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6127 & ælc bær an honde ænne saȝel [c1300 Otho staf] stronge.
2. A stake sharpened at the end, esp. one used in the construction of a hedge or fence; in later use, a hurdle-stake (cf. quots.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
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tree971
rungOE
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poleOE
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heck-stower1401
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cammockc1425
sallow stakec1440
spoke1467
perk treec1480
yard1480
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spit1485
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stob1550
blade1558
wattle1570
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sparret1632
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tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hurdle > parts of
stay-slota1844
sowel1844
twilley hole1893
twilly1948
c900 Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. 24 His oðer fot wearð fæst on anum sagle [v.rr. sahle, hegesahle] þæs geardes.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3616 So griseliche be þe engins, For to sle þe Sarrazines, In ich half y-sett arawe, Scharpe soules doun of þe hulle y-drawe.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cliv Soules & stakes beþ iclensed ere þei be ipiȝt in þe grounde.
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (1848) 387 Sowel, or Sole,..a shore or stake, such as is driven into ground to fasten up hurdles to.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Zooul, a stake to fasten sheep-hurdles.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Sole, a stake driven into the ground to fasten up hurdles.
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