Obs. or dial. [Of obscure origin: cf. next.] intr. To do anything vigorously or strenuously. Hence Twigging vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1573. Twyne, Æneid, XI. I i iv b. Lyke a fawcon that … at a twygginge doue vnto the cloudes swyft winge doth make. Ibid., XII. L l iij. The bird of mightie Ioue … a shole of foules she did pursue And twigginge forth apace last on her flight the Egle flue.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 81. The lamb of such twinners for breeders go take, For twinlings be twiggers, encrease for to bring, Though som for their twigging Peccantem may sing.
1828. Craven Gloss., Twig,… to do any thing strenuously, to work with might and main.
