twissel

comparative more twissel · superlative most twissel · alternative twistle · alternative twissell

1. obsoleteDouble; twofold.

   Synonyms: duplicate, twosome

plural twissels · alternative twistle · alternative twissell

1. rareA double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.

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   16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599, As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;

2. rareThat part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.