† twistkeyn.
Obsolete. rare.
A turnkey.
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prisonera1325
officer?1387
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turnkey1655
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1617 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. I. 178 John geffreys my twistekey died.
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