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twinter, a. and n. Chiefly north. and Sc.|ˈtwɪntə(r)|
Forms: 5–6 twynter, (5 twyntour, 6 twintter, twyntter, tynter, twenter), 6– twinter; also 6 qwintter, 9 Sc. quinter.
[Reduced f. OE. twi-wintre, -winter of two winters: see twi- and winter, and cf. thrinter. So WFris. twinter- two years old (of horses or cows; known to Kilian in tweenter-, twinterdier), and twinter (also twainter) a two-year-old horse or cow, NFris. twenter an ox of this age.]
A. adj. Of two winters; two years old: said of cattle and sheep (also of colts).
1537N.C. Wills (Surtees 1908) 103 To every oon..of my kynde servauntes..oon twynter calf. 1540Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 94, ij twintter bolokes..one twyntter heffer. 1582Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 1 A twinter kowlt. 1620Ibid. 245 A twinter steere. 1638Will E. Burton in Reliquary VIII. 221 One twinter bay filly with a whyte foote. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 38 After a ewe has been shorn three times she is called a twinter ewe, that is, a two-winter ewe. 1876Whitby Gloss., Twinter, ‘a twinter stot’, an ox of two winters old.
B. n. A two-year-old cow, ox, horse, or sheep.
1404Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 399 Item xiiij twynterys. 1408Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Coll. II. 16 Vnum twyntour. 1513Douglas æneis v. ii. 105 Five twinteris britnit he,..and tydy quyis. 1536Durham Acc. Rolls 419, 4 Trynters, 7 Twynters, 9 Stirks. 1567Richmond. Wills (Surtees) 204 One yonge colte beinge a twinter. 1570Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 341, xxiij twenters, stotts and whies. 1674Blount Glossogr., Twinters, Cattle of two Winters old, so called in Bedford-shire. c1720Ramsay Ram & Buck 22 When sleet Made twinters and hog-wedders bleet. 1777Antiq. in Ann. Reg. ii. 149/1 Twinter, a calf two winters or two years old: Derbyshire. 1808Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 97 The name of the female neat cattle is for the first year, cow⁓calf, then a..twinter. 1868Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Ser. ii. IV. ii. 428, I turned 20 yearly calves and ‘twinters’—as two-year-old animals are locally termed—into a 6-acre field. a1898[see thrinter].
b. transf. Applied to pasture for, or the right to pasture, a two-year-old sheep, in a common or jointly-held field.
1846Award cited in High Crt. of Justice (1892), Chanc. Div. (Coulston v. Harvey), Four gaits, two twinters, in Bolton Highfield. 1892Ibid., The Plaintiffs are entitled to 11 gaits 2 twinters and 2 claws or..22 a. 1 r. 35 p. And the Defendants to 2 gaits and 1 claw or..3 a. 2 r. 5 p. |