Meanings
numeral
- dialectalobsoleteTwo.
Guyons angry blade so fierce did play On th'others helmet, which as Titan shone, That quite it cloue his plumed crest in tway, And bared all his head vnto the bone […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Englishtwēġe
- Middle Englishtweye
- Englishtway
Inherited from Middle English tweye, from Old English twēġe, reduced form of twēġen (“twain”). Doublet of swy.
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tway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tway
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“tway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tway. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tway,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tway.
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