English Explanatory Dictionary

twistle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A boundary stream.
verb
  1. To twist.
noun
  1. A wrench.

Pronunciation

/ˈtwɪsəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-twistle.wav

Word forms

twistle twistles twistling twistled

Etymology

Alteration of twissel (literally “double, forked”), from Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction, fork of a river or road”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”). Compare also Icelandic kvísl (“branch, a fork; fork of a river”).

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