twizzlen.
Chiefly dialect.
1. A twist or turn; a change of direction.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun]
wentc1374
turning1426
turnagain1545
wrench1549
yaw1597
veer1611
veering1611
version1625
wheelinga1660
sway1818
whiffle1842
twizzle1848
split-turn1932
1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words at Twizzle There be so many turns and twizzles.
2. In a spinning-machine, the eye of a flyer.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > parts of
knave1564
porcupine roller1776
catch box1809
jack-frame1814
Jack-in-the-box1814
flyer frame1825
sneck1825
thread-wire1825
creel1835
fly-frame1835
self-actor1835
trumpet-mouth1835
counter-faller1836
Jack1875
trumpet1877
back-shaft1879
builder1884
pot-eye1884
twizzle1884
rice creel1895
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 153 The flyer..revolves ‘the way the sun goes’, the yarn is hooked into the flyer-eye, or twizzle, at its lower extremity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
twizzlev.
dialect and colloquial.
1. intransitive. To rotate rapidly, spin, twirl.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > spin
spin1667
pirouette1741
pirl1791
turbinate1797
snoove1808
twizzlea1825
teetotum1831
teetotumize1841
purl1857
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) He came twizzling down.
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 126 But those on the more exposed spots were fairly ‘twizzling’ like tops.
1898 R. Kipling in Morning Post 11 Nov. 5/2 From 6 to 10 p.m. one screw twizzled for the most part in the circumambient ether.
1908 W. W. Jacobs Salthaven ii I suppose you never twizzle round on your chair.
2. transitive. To twirl, twist; to turn round; to form by twisting.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > twirl
thwerl1490
snoove1513
thirl1582
twirla1640
drill1681
trundlea1756
twizzle1788
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > twist spirally
writheOE
wethe1398
wind1398
withe1398
turna1450
cralla1475
twirk1599
twirla1625
twire1628
twist1714
wisp1753
twistle1788
twizzle1788
screw1834
twistify1835
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. Gloss. 248/1 Twisle, to twist, fold.
c1840 Lady Wilton Art of Needlework xvi. 255 In vain she cut and screwed the thread, she burnt it in the candle..she twizled it between her finger and thumb..but enter the eye of the needle it would not.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 366 Twizzle, to twist, to twirl. Variously applied... Corn that is beat about by the wind in different directions, till it is twisted and entangled, is said to be twizzled.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. I have twizzled all the cotton.
1887 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) xii. 391 My friends directly after breakfast began twizzling up cigarettes.
1888 F. Barrett Recoiling Vengeance vi The girl he loved was being hugged and twizzled round by his rival.
1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 9 138/1 If a couple of waxed~ends became twizzled [in the game of ‘cob-nut’].
1905 Longman's Mag. June 134 ‘Shall us come and twizzle th' old churn?’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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