TWILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twill mean? 

• TWILL (noun)
  The noun TWILL has 2 senses:

1. a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs

2. a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs

  Familiarity information: TWILL used as a noun is rare.

• TWILL (verb)
  The verb TWILL has 1 sense:

1. weave diagonal lines into (textiles)

  Familiarity information: TWILL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

twill; twill weave

Hypernyms ("twill" is a kind of...):

weave (pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric)

Derivation:

twill (weave diagonal lines into (textiles))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("twill" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Derivation:

twill (weave diagonal lines into (textiles))

• TWILL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weave diagonal lines into (textiles)

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "twill" is one way to...):

tissue; weave (create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

twill (a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs)

twill (a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs)

 Context examples 

It was yellow, with the prettiest little twill of pink running through it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We doen't say so, but so 'twill be, and better so. The last you see on him—the very last—will you give him the lovingest duty and thanks of the orphan, as he was ever more than a father to?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"An' now I'll do me duty to God," he murmured. He turned his head toward Edith. "Read to me," he said, "from the book;" then added, with a glint of playfulness, "Mayhap 'twill help me to forget the bunk."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“As Em'ly's eyes—which was heavy—see this woman better,” Mr. Peggotty went on, “she know'd as she was one of them as she had often talked to on the beach. Fur, though she had run (as I have said) ever so fur in the night, she had oftentimes wandered long ways, partly afoot, partly in boats and carriages, and know'd all that country, 'long the coast, miles and miles. She hadn't no children of her own, this woman, being a young wife; but she was a-looking to have one afore long. And may my prayers go up to Heaven that “twill be a happiness to her, and a comfort, and a honour, all her life! May it love her and be dootiful to her, in her old age; helpful of her at the last; a Angel to her heer, and heerafter!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)