thwite

English

Etymology

From Old English þwītan. See whittle, and compare thwaite (“a piece of land”).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Verb

thwite (third-person singular simple present thwites, present participle thwiting, simple past and past participle thwited)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for thwite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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