Chiefly dial. [Cf. next.]
1. A twist or turn; a change of direction.
1848. A. B. Evans, Leicestersh. Words, etc., s.v. Twizzle, There be so many turns and twizzles.
1876–. in dial. glossaries (Chesh., Shropsh., Warw., etc.).
2. In a spinning-machine, the eye of a flyer.
1884. W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning (ed. 2), 153. The flyer … revolves ‘the way the sun goes,’ the yarn is hooked into the flyer-eye, or twizzle, at its lower extremity.
