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twissel

twissel adjective: double; twofold.

Adjective

twissel (comparative more twissel, superlative most twissel)

  1. (obsolete) Double; twofold.
    Synonyms:
    duplicate, twosome

Noun

twissel (plural twissels)

  1. (rare) A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
    • 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,
      As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might /...
  2. (rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.

Synonyms of twissel

Forms of twissel

Adjective
comparativemore twissel
superlativemost twissel
alternative formtwistle
alternative formtwissell
Noun
pluraltwissels

Origin of twissel

From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English *twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).

Questions about twissel

What does twissel mean?
Twissel means double; twofold.
What part of speech is twissel?
Twissel can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near twissel in the dictionary

  1. twiscar
  2. twiscars
  3. twise
  4. Twisp
  5. Twiss
  6. twissel
  7. twissell
  8. twissels
  9. Twisses
  10. twist
  11. twist and turn

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