Brewer's: Dwile

or Dwyel. A house-flannel for cleaning floors, common in Norfolk, and called in the piece “dwyeling.” (Dutch, dweil, a clout or swab.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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