• dwyle

From Dutch dweil (“floorcloth”).

dwile (plural dwiles)

1. (archaic) A cloth for wiping or cleaning.
   • 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:

     For sixpence in that small nice inn, I had a glass of ale, my boots cleaned, and the excrescences cut off, my clothes wiped with a dwile, and then passed over with a brush, and was myself thanked over and over again.

2. The beer-soaked cloth thrown in the game of dwile flonking.

• wield, Wilde, wiled, wilde, WIELD