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Webster 1913 Edition


Thwaite

Thwaite

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
The twaite.

Thwaite

,
Noun.
[CF. Icel.
þveit
a piece of land, fr.
þvīta
to cut. See
Thwite
, and cf.
Doit
, and
Twaite
land cleared of woods.]
Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Thwaite occurs in composition as the last element in many names of places in the north of England; as, in Rosthwaite, Stonethwaite.

Webster 1828 Edition


Thwaite

THWAITE

,
Noun.
A fish, a variety of the shad.
1.
A plain parcel of ground, cleared of wood and stumps, inclosed and converted to tillage. [Local.