twillyn.2
/ˈtwɪli/ A willowing machine: = devil n. 11a(a); also called twilly-devil.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Twilly, a common name for the willying machine.
1859 C. Tomlinson Illustr. Useful Arts 19/1 Supposing the wool to be dyed, it is passed through the willy, or twilly—resembling the willow of the cotton manufacture.
1860 C. Tomlinson Useful Arts & Manuf. 1st Ser. 37 The willy, or shakewilly, as it is called in Yorkshire, and twilly in Gloucestershire.
1869 Eng. Mech. 19 Nov. 240/2 The best machine for pulling flocks is called a ‘twilly’.
Derivatives
ˈtwilly v. transitive to willow.
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1894 C. Vickerman Woollen Spinning viii. 117 This is the first operation after the wool is dyed, and is known by a variety of names, as teasing, willeying, willowing, and twilleying.
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twillyadj.n.1
/ˈtwɪli/ A. adj.
† Twilled. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > twilled
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c875 Erfurt Gloss. (Sweet) 1151 Biplex, duplex, tuili.
a900 Leiden Gloss. 157 Bilex, t[u]ili.
B. n.1
n. †(a) A twilled cloth; also attributive (Obsolete); (b) see quot. 1948.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > twilled
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hurdle > parts of
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1310 Acc. Exors. of Bp. of Exeter (1874) 4 j capa de samitrico tywele linita sindone yndico.
1375 in Boys Hist. Sandwich (1792) 556/2 De chescun twylecloth de la lb...ij d.
1440 in G. P. Scrope Hist. Castle Combe (1852) 230 ij. borde cloths, one of twelye.
1552 in W. Money Parish Church Goods Berks. (1879) 11 One other Coope lyke unto twillye the border of woursted.
1560 Will of Salmon (Somerset Ho.) A Twyley cloth to lay upon her bed.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xiv. 258 The mules sumpters should bee taken off their backes, leaving onely two course twillies or coverings upon them.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. lix. 269 His companion..latcheth them in a course twillie or couering.
1602 Inv. in Collectanea Archæologica (1863) II. 98 Twyllye canvasses.
1602 Inv. in Collectanea Archæologica (1863) II. 98 One twylle.
1602 Inv. in Collectanea Archæologica (1863) II. 101 A doble twyllye.
1631 Brit. Patent 54 2 All such kersy seves, otherwise twilly seves or haire seves.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 152 Four Livres..for every Piece of Boucassines, Twillis, Fustians, Bazins, and Bombasins.
1948 E. J. Stowe Crafts of Countryside iii. 24 About two-thirds of the way up from the bottom of the hurdle there are two important rods. They are known as ‘twillies’ (a country name for twisted rods), and are twisted about each other and around the upright sails one by one across the hurdle.
Compounds
twilley hole n. (also twilly hole) a hole left in the centre of a wattle hurdle for the insertion of a pole on which several hurdles may be carried simultaneously.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hurdle > parts of
stay-slota1844
sowel1844
twilley hole1893
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1893 N. H. Kennard Diogenes' Sandals vi. 90 A ‘twilley’ hole, is left in the centre of each hurdle for the insertion of the..pole, on which the shepherds carry them.
1948 E. J. Stowe Crafts of Countryside 128 Twillies, two twisted rods woven across wattle hurdles just above the twilly hole.
1959 Times 2 June 12/7 The split rods are twisted until the complete hurdle is ready with the twilly hole in the middle.
1971 Country Life 25 Feb. 424/1 These hurdles differ slightly from sheep hurdles which had a gap or twilly hole in their middle through which a shepherd put his stick to carry a load to the next enclosure.
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