Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Double; twofold.
- noun That which is double, as a double fruit, or fruit growing in pairs.
- noun That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole.
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- adjective obsolete
Double ;twofold . - noun rare A
double fruit or apair of like things growing on atree . - noun rare That part of a tree where the branches
separate from thetrunk orbole ; afork .
Etymologies
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From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English twisel ("forked, double"), from Old English twisla ("confluence, junction"), from Proto-Germanic *twisilan (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel ("fork").
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