Sc. Obs. rare. Forms: 6 twedlyne, 6–7 tuidling, 8 tweedling, 9 tweddlin, -len. [Of obscure origin: not a normal variant of Sc. tweeling, but app. a parallel formation to it.] = TWILLING.
1541. Aberdeen Regr., XVII. (Jam). Ane sark of small twedlyne.
1596. Compt Bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S.), 47. Item … xxvj ellis tuidling.
1658. Records of Elgin (1903), I. 305. Tailyors within the said burghe shall neither buy nor sell any merchandice except so much plaiding, harne, lining, tuidling, stenting, bleached or unbleached.
1747. in Nairne, Peerage Evid. (1874), 80. Sixteen pair tweedling sheets att one pound three shillings four pence.
1808. Jamieson, Tweddlin, cloth that is tweeled, used also as an adj., as tweddlen sheets, sheets of cloth wrought as described above.
