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thwittle

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From Middle English thwitel, equivalent to thwite +‎ -le.

動詞

thwittle (三人称単数現在形 thwittles, 現在分詞 thwittling, 過去形および過去分詞形 thwittled)

(obsolete) To cut or whittle.
- 1688, John Sergeant, Five Catholick Letters […] :
  your Absolute Certainty would be thwittled into sufficient Certainty

名詞

thwittle (複数形 thwittles)

(obsolete) A small knife; a whittle.
- 1675, Lucian of Samosata, Charles Cotton, transl., Burlesque upon burlesque, page 32:
  Merc.
  […] And that in Jove's great dining Room,
  We were with each one a good thwittle
  Again set down to swill, and vittle,
  Provided (Signior) do you see,
  That you should not the Carver be […]
- 1822, William Bennett, Malpas, volume 1, page 300-301:
  “Marry, what is't?” cried one fellow […] “Is't a thwittle shaft?”
  “Ay, or it may be the half of a shuttle,” said another; “dost note, it tapers to the end, and is biggest i' the middle? I warrant Saint Dunstan was a clothier, and made many an ell of stout broella.”
  “'Tis more like he was a butcher,” cried one of that fraternity, “if ye go by likes; for 'tis the very model of a thwittle shaft, and white ash to boot.”
- 1879, Edwin Waugh, “The Swallowed Sixpence”, in The Chimney Corner, page 44:
  The butcher stood in the door-way, beating time with his thwittle, and humming […]

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