thwite
English
Etymology
From Middle English thwiten, from Old English þwītan (“to cut, cut off”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną (“to split”). See whittle, and compare thwaite (“a piece of land”), doit (“small coin, small amount, bit”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪt
Verb
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- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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