▪ I. twilled, tweeled, a.1
(twɪld), (twiːld)
[f. twill n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
Woven with a twill; having diagonal lines or ridges on the surface.
| c 1423 in Raine Abps. York (Rolls) III. 306, j fethirbed de panno vocato twylled. 1536 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 53 A long twilte towell. 1536 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) III. 141 Two dossyn napkyns, one twilled towell. 1571 Ibid. I. 360, vj twealed bord clothes short and long. 1666 in Maitl. Club Misc. (1840) II. 539 Another greene tuilled night cap. 1805 Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 249 Any web, twilled, striped, checked or plain. 1824 Hogg Tales & Sk. (1837) V. 206 (Mem. Fanatic) His coat..is tweeled, milled, and thicker than a carpet. 1831 G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 236 Tweeled or twilled cloth is a description of figure weaving. 1857 Miller Elem. Chem. (1862) III. 87 A filtering apparatus consisting of tubes of twilled cotton. |
▪ II. † twilled, a.2 Obs.
Origin and meaning uncertain: numerous conjectures have been offered by commentators, but none has met with general acceptance. Cf. pioned.
| 1610 Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 64 Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims Which spungie Aprill at thy hest betrims. |