(also 6 twylt), obs. and dial. f. QUILT sb.1, v.1 and v.3 (See also TWILLED a.1)

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1477.  [see QUILT sb.1 1].

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1538.  in Bury Wills (Camden), 134. I wyll the bed, and the twylt couerlyt … be solde.

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1593.  [see QUILT v.1 2 transf.].

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1594.  [see QUILTED ppl. a. 1].

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1715.  Pennecuik, City & Country Mouse, 34. The City-Mouse then plac’t his Country-Guest, On a Rich Purple-Twilt to grace his Feast.

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1790.  Grose, Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Twilt, a quilt or bed-cover. North.

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1813.  Duff, Poems (1816), 56. Blankets, sheets, and stripit tykin’; Twilts an’ cov’rins to your likin’.

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1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., xxv[i]. Beds of state, twilts, pands and testors, napery and broidered wark.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Twilt,… a quilt; here as well as in the North. Twilt.… 1. To quilt…. 2. To beat. An expressive word, inasmuch as it is implied that weals are left, like the stripes or ridges in quilted work.

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