dial. Forms: 8 Sc. twisle, 8–9 twistle, 9 twissle (Sc. twussle). [app. f. TWIST v. + -LE.] trans. To twist, twirl; to screw.
1788. Picken, Poems, Gloss., Twisle, to twist, fold.
1819. Rennie, St. Patrick, II. 191 (Jam.). I’ll twussle your thrapple in a jiffy.
1826–. in various Eng. dial. glossaries (E.D.D.).
1886. Cole, S. W. Linc. Gloss., 152. The wind seems to twistle the straw.
1890. Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., III. 151. A tuft of clean cotton, formed into a ball and twistled on one side.
