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touchangle
† ˈtouchangle Obs. rare. ? = angle-twitch, worm used as bait in angling.1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 291 With this touch-angle he may fishe a good while, and catch a foole at the last. Oxford English Dictionary
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tweyangle
† tweyangle Obs. rare—1. App. synonym (or error) for touchangle, angle-twitch.14.. Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 409 in Anglia XVIII. 317 [If] wermys, tweyanglys be name, [be] Mad to powdyr. Oxford English Dictionary
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twatchel
twatchel arch. (ˈtwætʃəl) Also 7–8 twachel. [Related to twæcce in OE. angol-twæcce, angle-twitch, -touch, earthworm. Cf. touchangle, tweyangle.] A name for the earthworm. Added in the 3rd ed. of Walton's Angler, and thence in subsequent books on fishing.1661 Walton Angler v. (ed. 3) 92 The twachel o... Oxford English Dictionary
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