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preposition
- dialectalobsolete except UKSynonym of betwixt (“between”).
[…] the boat’s drove tight by the tide ’atwixt two tiers of barges.
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 1393 more examples
But with outrageous strokes did him restraine, / And with his body bard the way atwixt them twaine.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 108Whate’er ye are, be sure an’ fix’t; / Opinions ne’er haltin’ atwixt;
1789, David Sillar, “Epistle to J. W****N, Student of Divinity, Edinburgh”, in Poems, Kilmarnock, page 59“I kin take him from right here ’atwixt his eyes,” said Jenks softly, and tapped his rifle significantly.
1909, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in The Last Trail, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 218
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