Now dial. [f. TWIG v.3 2.] A pull; a twitch; a tug; a draught.

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a. 1800.  Laird of Wariston, vi., in Child, Ballads, VII. (1890), 31/2. The nurice she knet the knot,… The lady did gie it a twig, Till it began to wicker.

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1808.  Jamieson, Twig, a quick pull, a twitch.

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1818.  Naval Chron., XXXIX. 65. He was taken in tow by A Friend,… which twig to windward … will … enable him to round the Cape.

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1825.  J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, I. 54. A ‘twig o’ cider’ a piece.

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