Twill

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  • noun. A fabric with diagonal parallel ribs.
  • noun. The weave used to produce such a fabric.
  • transitive verb. To weave (cloth) so as to produce a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A variety of textile fabric in which the weft-threads do not pass over and under the warp-threads in regular succession, as in common plain weaving. but pass over one and under two, over one and under three, or over one and under eight or ten, according to the kind of twill.
  • noun. The raised line made by twilling.
  • noun. A reed; a quill; a spool to wind yarn on.
  • To quill; trim with quilling or fluting.
  • The great fat pincushion lined with pink inside, and twilled like a lady's nightcap.
  • A dialectal variant of till.
  • To weave in a particular way (see twill, n.), producing diagonal ribs in the stuff.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
  • noun. A fabric woven with a twill.
  • noun. A quill, or spool, for yarn.
  • transitive verb. To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a pattern created by the way threads are passed over and under each other during weaving
  • noun. a piece of cloth with this woven pattern
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs
  • noun. a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs
  • verb. weave diagonal lines into (textiles)
  • Word Usage
    "And little Dorry, 'twill be fine for her to get her mammy back, I warrant -- so 'twill."
    Form
    twilled  twilling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cloth  fabric  material  textile  tissue  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    'to  'twill  ...to  birk  blurt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    braid  crease  crimp  crisp  dog-ear  
    verb-form
    twilled  twilling  twills