thwaite
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of thwaite
from Old Norse thveit paddock
Example Sentences
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O. N. ai > ē, written a, ai, ay, ei: bait, bein, bayt, blaik, dey, grane, graip, graith, heid, laif, lairet, lairing, lak, laiching, thwaite, waith, slaik, swage, raise, tha.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
In Lincolnshire there are 212 by's, in Leicestershire 66, in Northampton 26; thwaite does not occur at all.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Northwest England thwaite, Norse tveit, tvæit, Dan. tved.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
It is either Raven’s thwaite or Raven’s swarth, but never worth, which is here meaningless.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William
Swarth still lingers on the tongues of the mowers, and thwaite was the form adopted by a once famous family from this mountain fastness.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William
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