twilly
English
Etymology
Compare willy.
Noun
twilly (plural twillies)
- A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willying machine.
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Synonyms
- devil
- twilly devil
Verb
twilly (third-person singular simple present twillies, present participle twillying, simple past and past participle twillied)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “twilly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)