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twistle

/ˈtwɪsəl/

twistle noun: a boundary stream.

Noun (1)

twistle (plural twistles)

  1. (obsolete) A boundary stream.

Verb

twistle (third-person singular simple present twistles, present participle twistling, simple past and past participle twistled)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To twist.

Noun (2)

twistle (plural twistles)

  1. (Scotland) A wrench.

Forms of twistle

Noun
pluraltwistles
Verb
third-person singular presenttwistles
present participletwistling
past participletwistled
pasttwistled

Origin of twistle

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”).

Related to twist.

Words that rhyme with twistle

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Questions about twistle

What does twistle mean?
Twistle means a boundary stream.
What part of speech is twistle?
Twistle can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce twistle?
Twistle is pronounced /ˈtwɪsəl/.
What is the plural of twistle?
The plural of twistle is twistles.

Words near twistle in the dictionary

  1. twisting the knife
  2. twisting the knife in the wound
  3. twisting up
  4. twistingly
  5. twistings
  6. twistle
  7. twistled
  8. twistles
  9. twistless
  10. twistling
  11. twistlock

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