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Trilling vs Twilling - What's the difference?

trilling | twilling |

As nouns the difference between trilling and twilling

is that trilling is one of three children born at the same birth; a triplet while twilling is twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.

As a verb trilling

is present participle of trill.

trilling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) Drilling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One of three children born at the same birth; a triplet.
    • (Wright)
  • (crystallography) A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    twilling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 563:
    • It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining , the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling , which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads