Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A twist; a wrench.
- noun Same as
twissel . - To twist.
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- noun obsolete A boundary stream .
Etymologies
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Alteration of twissel (literally "double, forked"), from Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English twisla ("confluence, junction, fork of a river or road"), from Proto-Germanic *twisilan (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel ("fork"). Compare also Icelandic kvísl ("branch, a fork; fork of a river").
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I did learn to draw and twistle such a gun when I was a kid.
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