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单词 thwite
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thwitev.

/θwʌɪt/
Forms: Old English þwitan, þweoton; Middle English–1600s thwyte, (1600s– dialect) thwite, (Middle English twhyte, Middle English twyte, 1500s thwight, 1800s dialect tweet, twet, toight). past participle Middle English thwyten, 1500s thwytten, thweten, 1500s–1600s thwitten; Middle English–1600s thwyted, 1500s–1600s thwitted, Middle English– thwited. See also white v.2
Etymology: Old English þwítan (*þwát , þwiten ) to cut, cut off; not recorded elsewhere; but Old Norse had derivatives in þveita small axe, þvita a kind of axe, þveit , þveiti cut-off piece, parcel of land, thwait(e n. In modern Scots and northern dialect the word has become quhyte , hwite , white v.2, in Aberdeen fite . See also thwittle v., whittle v.2
Obsolete exc. dialect.
a. transitive. To cut down, whittle, pare, shave; to shape by paring; to cut away. Also figurative. Phrase, to thwite a mill-post (etc.) to a pudding-prick.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut off or away (with an instrument)
thwitea900
telwec1440
mowc1450
top1509
summer top1548
whittle1552
white1567
shave1605
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvii.] 204 ge[a] eac swylce of þære ilcan styðe sponas þweoton & sceafþan nomon [v.r. ðæt geþwit naman].
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 292 genim þone neowran wyrttruman delf up, þwit nigon sponas on ða winstran hand.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 933 That other bowe..was peynted wel and thwyten [MS. twythen, Thynne thwitten].
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 848 Somme [twigs] weren white Whiche as men to these cages thwite [v.rr. thwyte, twhyte] Or maken of these panyers.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiijv/2 The ende of the graff that was vpward next the firmament must be thweten lyke the neder of a comon graffe.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 236/2 Here was a gret post wel thwyted to a pudding pricke.
1574 Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. clvii It nippeth and thwitethe awaie a great deale off that liberalitie, whiche might come to vs.
1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 112 The Cutter of the Tallyes..provideth a..hasell for the Tallies..and doth somewhat thwite every stick thereof into four square sides.
1674 J. Ray N. Country Words To Thwite, to whittle, cut, make white by cutting.
1897 Shetland News 24 July (E.D.D.) A placid roadman ‘tweetin’ the grass in the ditches with a scythe.
b. intransitive. To whittle. Now dialect.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > detach by cutting > cut off thin layer
thwitec1475
c1475 Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 7 Kutte nouhte youre mete eke as it were Felde men..They ne rekke..how vngoodly they on theyre mete twyte.
1863 Lanc. Fents, New Shirt 5 After ‘thwiting’ at the topmost bar of the gate till he had made it look almost like a new one.
1870 E. Waugh Winter Fire iii. 24 Let these lads thwite at it [beef] a bit.

Derivatives

ˈthwiting n. ; thwiting-knife, ? a paring or scraping knife used by bowyers.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting off or away (with an instrument)
shearingc1315
paring1319
concision1382
shaving1390
thwiting1393
forcingc1440
trousing1512
trimmingc1525
circumcision1581
snipping1583
clipping1589
snip-snap1597
trim1608
whittling1614
collinga1628
shripping1635
snippery1639
undercuttinga1652
exscindinga1677
nipping1693
snip-snapping1906
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off > cutting off a thin surface layer
paring1319
shaving1390
thwiting1393
whittling1614
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 199 In þresshynge, in þecchyng, in thwytynge of pynnes.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 493/1 Thwytynge, or telwynge, sectulatus, abscidula, abscindula.
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A thwitting knife, nocksaws, a rasp, a riper, a share, a baldock, &c., gli stromenti dell arciero [the tools of the bowyer].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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