twissel

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twissel

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From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English *twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisilą (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).

adjective more twissel · most twissel · twistle · twissell

obsolete Double; twofold.
Similar: duplicate, twosome

noun twissels · twistle · twissell

rare A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree. 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 / A
rare That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.

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@misc{twissel_2026,
  title = {twissel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/twissel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}