twilled
Verb
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of twill
- (of fabric) Having diagonal parallel ribs.
- (nonce) A Shakespearean word, perhaps meaning: woven with sticks to hinder erosion.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i], page 14 ↗:
- Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims
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