Sussex dial. Also twitting. [Perh. related to LG. twiete alley, lane; but cf. also OE. twicen and TWITCHEL1.] A narrow path or passage between two walls or hedges.
1801. Pennant, Journ. fr. Lond. to Isle of Wight, II. 77. Alleys, or, as they are called here [at Brighton] twittings, narrow passages, often not three feet wide.
1860. W. H. Ainsworth, Ovingdean Grange, 334. Having tracked a series of ‘twittens’ … they issued forth into West-street.
1904. Sat. Rev., 2 April, 424/1. Along the bostals of the Downs and through the village twittens.
