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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1409-1436, 1596-1630
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Tuig(g, Tuyg(e, Twig(g, n. [ME and e.m.E. twig(g)e (both c1175), tuyg (Ayenbite), north. OE twigge.] A twig, a shoot from a branch. — c1409-1436 Kingis Quair § 54.
The lytill nyghtingale, That sat apon the twiggis 1596 Dalr. I 39/14.
The capercalȝe … lyues of only the tuigs or tendir branches 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 92.
For tuyges xxx s. 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 21.
He cutted tuigs and boughes of litle bushes 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 21.
Tuiggs —proverb. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1567.
That is trew thorn, wil ye by a tuig
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