Meanings
alternative twy-pointed
- archaicnot comparableHaving two points or peaks.
And the bolt of Zeus / Twy-pointed, see'st thou, in his hurling hands?
1890, A. W. Verrall, translating Euripides, Ion, p. 212 more examples
Yee Nine that leaue twi-pointed Pernas hill, / To dwell on double-trenched Gogmagog […].
1623, Ælfric of Eynsham, translated by William L'Isle, A Saxon treatise concerning the Old and New Testament, DedicationIn this sulphur the magick circle had been drawn with a twy-pointed stick, and the grooves thus made had been filled with charcoal powder.
1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 202
Origin
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