Thwittle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Thwittle is a verb meaning (obsolete) To cut or whittle.
Meaning
(obsolete) To cut or whittle.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A small knife; a whittle.
Example Sentences
your Absolute Certainty would be thwittled into sufficient Certainty
The butcher stood in the door-way, beating time with his thwittle, and humming[…]
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[…]
“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.”
Word Forms
- thwittles
- thwittling
- thwittled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whittle, tohew, thin, dwindle, small, trifle.
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