twistle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A boundary stream. obsolete
  2. A wrench. Scotland
动词 v.
  1. To twist. Scotland,transitive

词形变化

twistles plural twistles present,singular,third-person twistling participle,present twistled participle,past twistled past twistles plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Related to twist.
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