Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Thwaite"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thwaite \Thwaite\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The twaite.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thwaite \Thwaite\, n. [CF. Icel. [thorn]veit a piece of land,
fr. [thorn]v[=i]ta to cut. See {Thwite}, and cf. {Doit}, and
{Twaite} land cleared of woods.]
Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Note: Thwaite occurs in composition as the last element in
many names of places in the north of England; as, in
Rosthwaite, Stonethwaite.
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