[f. TWILL sb.1 and v.1 + -ED.] Woven with a twill; having diagonal lines or ridges on the surface.

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c. 1423.  in Raine, Abps. York (Rolls), III. 306. j fethirbed de panno vocato twylled.

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1536.  Test. Ebor. (Surtees), VI. 53. A long twilte towell.

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1536.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), III. 141. Two dossyn napkyns, one twilled towell. Ibid. (1571), I. 360. vj twealed bord clothes short and long.

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1666.  in Maitl. Club Misc. (1840), II. 539. Another greene tuilled night cap.

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1805.  Trans. Soc. Arts, XXIII. 249. Any web, twilled, striped, checked or plain.

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1824.  Hogg, Tales & Sk. (1837), V. 206. (Mem. Fanatic) His coat … is tweeled, milled, and thicker than a carpet.

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1831.  G. R. Porter, Silk Manuf., 236. Tweeled or twilled cloth is a description of figure weaving.

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1857.  Miller, Elem. Chem. (1862), III. 87. A filtering apparatus consisting of tubes of twilled cotton.

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