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▪ I. thwittle, n. Now dial.|ˈθwɪt(ə)l|
Forms: 4–5 þw-, thwitel, thwytel, 5 -elle, Sc. thewtill, quhittil, 6 thwitle, 7 thwittel, 7– thwittle: see also whittle.
[f. thwite v. + -el, -le.]
A knife, a whittle.
[c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 168 Coteus, thiwilet (? for thwitel).] c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 13 A Sheffeld thwitel [v.r. thwytel] baar he in his hose. c1470Henry Wallace i. 218 A Scottis thewtill [ed. 1570 quhittil] wndyr thi belt to ber. 1664Cotton Scarron. 37 They rise and wipe their greasy thwittles. 1796Pegge Derbicisms (E.D.S.), With a Lancashire thwittle I thwited a flail-swipple. 1881Antiquary Feb. 87 A bill-hook has been substituted for the thwittle.
▪ II. thwittle, v. Now dial.|ˈθwɪt(ə)l|
[freq. and dim. of thwite v.: see -le 3.]
trans. To pare down or away, to whittle (also intr.): = thwite v.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 244 He hath thwittled the milpost of his huge conceit to a pudding-pricke. 1874E. Waugh Jannock ii. 12 He'll not like to dine off o' what we'n bin thwittlin' at. |