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单词 swealer
释义

swealern.

Forms: Also sweeler; see also swaler n.
Etymology: < sweal v. + -er suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswealer.
dialect.
(See quot. 1877.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > particle of foreign matter > in candle wax
swealer1877
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Swealer, a speck of foreign matter in the grease of a candle which causes it to sweal.
1896 N. Munro Lost Pibroch 121 Had it been shrouds instead of sweelers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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