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▪ I. ˈtwizzle, n. Chiefly dial.
[Cf. next]
1. A twist or turn; a change of direction.
1848A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words, etc. s.v. Twizzle, There be so many turns and twizzles. 1876–in dial. glossaries (Chesh., Shropsh., Warw., etc.).
2. In a spinning-machine, the eye of a flyer.
1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 153 The flyer..revolves ‘the way the sun goes’, the yarn is hooked into the flyer-eye, or twizzle, at its lower extremity.
▪ II. ˈtwizzle, v. dial. and colloq.
[app. an imitative formation suggested by twist v.: cf. twistle v.]
1. intr. To rotate rapidly, spin, twirl.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., He came twizzling down. 1886P. Robinson Valley Teet. Trees 126 But those on the more exposed spots were fairly ‘twizzling’ like tops. 1898Kipling in Morn. Post 11 Nov. 5/2 From 6 to 10 p.m. one screw twizzled for the most part in the circumambient ether. 1908W. W. Jacobs Salthaven ii, I suppose you never twizzle round on your chair.
2. trans. To twirl, twist; to turn round; to form by twisting.
1788E. Picken Poems & Epistles Gloss. 248/1 Twisle, to twist, fold. c1840Lady Wilton Art of Needle-Work xvi. 255 In vain she cut and screwed the thread, she burnt it in the candle..she twizled it between her finger and thumb..but enter the eye of the needle it would not. 1854Baker Northampt. Gloss., Twizzle, to twist, to twirl. Variously applied... Corn that is beat about by the wind in different directions, till it is twisted and entangled, is said to be twizzled. 1866J. E. Brogden Linc. Gloss., I have twizzled all the cotton. 1887C. Keene Let. in Life xii. (1892) 391 My friends directly after breakfast began twizzling up cigarettes. 1888F. Barrett Recoiling Vengeance vi, The girl he loved was being hugged and twizzled round by his rival. 1890N. & Q. 7th Ser. IX. 138/1 If a couple of waxed⁓ends became twizzled [in the game of ‘cob-nut’]. 1905Longm. Mag. June 134 ‘Shall us come and twizzle th' old churn?’
▪ III. twizzle
variant of twisel. |
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