Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch variant of
twill . Comparetweed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
twill .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
twill .
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Examples
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The military is developing a version of the tweel for themselves.
Military Developing A Tweel Of Their Own « Tai-Chi Policy 2008
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Tweed got deleted but I stand by it based on the following T he original name was tweel, the Scots for ‘twill’, the cloth being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern.
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A tait o woo would be scarce amang us, said the goodwife, brightening, if ye shouldna hae that, and as gude a tweel as ever cam aff a pirn.
Chapter XXVI 1917
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'A tait o 'woo' would be scarce amang us, 'said the goodwife, brightening,' if ye shouldna hae that, and as gude a tweel as ever cam aff a pirn.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'A tait o 'woo' would be scarce amang us, 'said the goodwife, brightening,' if ye shouldna hae that, and as gude a tweel as ever cam aff a pirn.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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'A tait o 'woo' would be scarce amang us, 'said the goodwife, brightening,' if ye shouldna hae that, and as gude a tweel as ever cam aff a pirn.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Michelin has also toyed with the idea of a new type of wheel called the Tweel and it recently announced a new lunar wheel based on the tweel.
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"Well, sir, I have a pair of knee-breeches, of most famous velveteen, double tweel, which have been only once on my legs, and that no farther gone than last Sabbath.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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"Well, sir, I have a pair of knee-breeches, of most famous velveteen, double tweel, which have been only once on my legs, and that no farther gone than last Sabbath.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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‘A tait o’ woo’ would be scarce amang us,’ said the goodwife, brightening, ‘if ye shouldna hae that, and as gude a tweel as ever cam aff a pirn.
Guy Mannering 1815
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