A nonce-rendering of G. zwickmühle, a certain advantage in the game of merels.
c. 1640. H. Bell, Luther’s Colloq. Mens. (1652), 307. The Pope … maketh between the Emperor and French King a Twittchmill, without which two hee cannot subsist. Ibid. Hee forsaketh not that Twittchmill with the Emperor and French King.
