Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
twaite . - noun A piece of ground reclaimed and converted to tillage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.
- noun (Zoöl.) The twaite.
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- noun archaic A piece of
forest land cleared foragriculture orhabitation ; aclearing ;assart
Etymologies
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Examples
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If it means 'forest glade' then some of the Old English -ley names or Norse -thwaite names might also be candidates, if they happen to have been translated by a bilingual local.
Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009
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In Cumberland, the loveliest district in England, under the fostering care of Mrs. Hardwicke Rawnsley, wife of the vicar of Crosthwaite (that picturesque vale, or thwaite, where St. Kentigern reared the cross in the earliest age of England's religious history), has grown up, since 1883, the Keswick Industrial School of Art, and a
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The terminations _by_, _thwaite_, and _thorpe_, are still common in Denmark.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 Various 1836
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Sam Robins is the new shore-caught record holder for thwaite shad.
This Is Guernsey 2009
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(the church town), &c. -- all ending in _thwaite_, which signifies an isolated piece of land -- all ending in _thorpe_ (Old Northern, a collection of houses separated from some principal estate) -- all ending in _næs_, a promontory, and _ey_ or _öe_, an island.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 Various 1836
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thwaite had a gruff epitaph carved for him in last year's hit "The Town," playing a mob boss to reluctant employee/bank robber Ben Affleck.
Phillies Zone 2011
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