sewel

English

Alternative forms

• shewel

Etymology

Unclear [from mid-1300s]; perhaps from Old English, and thence related to English shy and German scheuen (“to scare”).

Noun

sewel (plural sewels)

1. A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
   • 1768, John Cartwright, Remarks on the Situation of the Aborigines of Newfoundland […] :

     Their sewels are made by tying a tassel of birch rind , formed like the wing of a paper kite , to the small end of a slight stick , about six feet in length. These sticks are pricked into the ground about ten or a dozen yards apart

References

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

Anagrams

• Lewes, lewes, weels

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Noun

séwel

1. A bush which can be used as soap. Probably