Meaning of twissel | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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;”

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