In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
TEWELS
Noun
tewels
plural of tewel
Anagrams
• Weltes, lewest, tweels
Source: Wiktionary
TEWEL
Tew"el, n. Etym: [OE. tuel, OF. tuiel, tuel, F. tuyau; of Teutonic origin; cf. Dan. tud, D. tuit, Prov. G. zaute. Cf. Tuyère.]
1. A pipe, funnel, or chimney, as for smoke. Chaucer.
2. The tuyère of a furnace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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