twixt

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twixt

  1. (literary) betwixt, between
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      I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis.
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      From all the dangers he foresees or fears; Yet every hour 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis steers.

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