Trilling vs Twilling - What's the difference?
trilling | twilling |
(obsolete) One of three children born at the same birth; a triplet.
(crystallography) A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.
(Webster 1913)
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Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 563:
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
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Compare (etyl) Drilling.Noun
(en noun)- (Wright)
twilling
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Noun
(en noun)- 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