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twilt
(also 6 twylt)
obs. and dial. f. quilt n.1, v.1 and v.3 (See also twilled a.1)
1477[see quilt n.1 1]. 1538in Bury Wills (Camden) 134, I wyll the bed, and the twylt couerlyt..be solde. 1593[see quilt v.1 2 transf.]. 1594[see quilted ppl. a. 1]. 1715Pennecuik City & Country Mouse 34 The City-Mouse then plac't his Country-Guest, On a Rich Purple-Twilt to grace his Feast. 1790Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Twilt, a quilt or bed-cover. North. 1813Duff Poems (1816) 56 Blankets, sheets, and stripit tykin'; Twilts an' cov'rins to your likin'. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxv[i], Beds of state, twilts, pands and testors, napery and broidered wark. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Twilt,..a quilt; here as well as in the North. Twilt... 1. To quilt... 2. To beat. An expressive word, inasmuch as it is implied that weals are left, like the stripes or ridges in quilted work. |