thwacking knife (thwakingnif)

A knife adv.] I. trans. 1. To pa over or acro ; for trimming pantiles on the thwacking-frame. thwaitel (thwat), n. [Also dial. twaite; AF. twaite ), Thwaite chiefly occurs as the second element in local names, especially in the lake district of the north of Eng. land, as in Bas sen thwaite , Cro thwaite , and Stone thwaite. thwaite (thwat), n. Same as twaite2 . thwangt, n. A Middle English form of thong . thwarlet, a. [ME., perhaps connected with twirl (D. dwarlen ); otherwise po ibly an error for thwart , cro : see thwart1 , a.] Twisted (?); intricate (?): found only in the following pa age. As the dok lasted, Sythen thrawen wyth a thwong a thwarle knot alofte, Ther mony bellez ful bryzt of brende golde rungen. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 194. thwart1 (thwart), adv . and prep . [ thwert (as in over thwert, thwert over, a thwert, a thirt , athwart), thvert , acro ( um - thvert , acro , athwart), = Sw. tvärt , rudely, = Dan. tvert , adv., acro , athwart (cf. MD. dwers , dwersch, dwars , D. dwars = G. zwerch , acro ); prop. neut. acc. (with the neut. suffix -t usual in Scand.) of the adj., Icel. thverr , cro , transverse, Sw. tvär- = Dan. tver- = AS. thweorh ( thweor- ), transverse, perverse, = MD. * dwer , * dwar , dwers , dwersch , dwars , D. dwars , adj., = OHG. dwerah , twerh , MHG. twerch , dwerch , also querch , G. zwerch in comp., also without the Milton, P. L., iv. 557. In this pa age we frequently chang'd our barge, by reason of the bridges thwarting our course. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 5, 1641. 2t. To put cro wise, or one acro another. All knights-templars make such Saltire Cro with their thwarted legs upon their monuments. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. iii. 11. 3t. To put in the way; oppose. 'Gainst which the noble sonne of Telamon Oppos'd himselfe, and, thwarting his huge shield, Them battell bad. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 514. 4. To cro , as a purpose; contravene; frustrate; baffle. Third Out. Have you long sojourned there? Val. Some sixteen months; and longer might have stay'd, If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak., T. G. of V., iv. 1. 22. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclina- tions of the other. South , Sermons. O thwart me not, sir Soph, at ev'ry turn, Nor carp at ev'ry flaw you may discern. Cowper, Conversation, 1. 91. "It is no part of the duty of a Christian Prince," added the Abbe , "to thwart the wishes of a pious soul." Scott , Quentin Durward, xxxv. No injudicious interference from any quarter ever thwarted my plans for her [a pupil's) improvement. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xii. =Syn. 4. Foil , Baffle , etc. See frustrate . II. in trans. 1. To go cro wise or obliquely. Thomson.-2. To be in opposition; be con final guttural, OHG. twer, MHG. twer, quer, G. trary or perverse; hence, to quarrel; contend. quer = LG. quer () E. queer1 ), cro , transverse, = Goth. thwairhs, angry (not found in lit. sense gry'); 'perhaps connected with L. torquere, 'cro '; cf. E. cro 1, 'transverse,' also 'an Thwart not thou with thy fellow. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 75. [Rare in both senses.]