tuft of grass, cotton Vin.ii.150 (3 kinds: rukkha˚, latā˚ poṭaki˚); Snp.591 = Ja.iv.127 (vāto tūlaṃ va dhaṃsaye) DN-a.i.87.

• -picu cotton-wool Vism.282, Vism.285, Vism.404; Dhp-a.iii.202 Kp-a.173.
• -puṇṇikā (“stuffed with tuft of cotton” a kind of shoe Vin.i.186.

Sk. tūla, to *teu, Sk. tavīti, to swell or be bushy, cp. Gr. τύλη swelling; Ags. pol peg