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Thwang(e, Thwayng, Thawynge, n. Also: thuang, twange, twhang, twaynge. [ME and e.m.E. þuong (c1200), þong, þwong, þwang (all Layamon), thuang (Cursor M.), thong (1465), OE þwang, þwǫng.] = Quhang(e n. a thong. c1420 Wynt. viii 4803 (C).
A royne skyn tuk he thar [of] syne And schare a thawynge [W. thwayng, A. twaynge] … And thar withe festnyt vp his gere c1420 Wynt. viii 4808 (C).
Thaim thoucht neuir in thar day Sa richt anoyus abidynge, As thai had in that thawynge [W. thwayng, A. twange, E.² turwaying] sherynge 1513 Doug. Comm. i vi 107.
Dido maid carve the bull hid in sa small twhangis 1513 Doug. ix xi 5.
Scharp querrellis and castyng dartis … Quhilk thai with lyamys and thwangis [Ruddim. quhayngis] lang owt threw c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke iii 16.
I am nocht worthie to louse the thwang [W. thwong, P. lace] of his schoone c1520-c1535 Nisbet John i 27.
Thuang [P. thwong] 1533 Boece 265b.
Thwayng castell … Sum haldis that quhen Hengist had optenit at Vortigerne als mekill land as be ane thwayng mycht be circumdate to beild ane castell, he schure ane grete bugill hyde in ane lan[g] thwayng like ane threde, and dissatefully circumducing the samyn about ane strenthy rocke [etc.] 1555 Misc. Bann. C. I 13.
After that we haue slayne redd deir we flaye of the skyne … and … play the swtters … mesuringe so moche therof as shall retche vp to our ancklers … stretchide vp with a stronge thwange of the same meitand aboue our saide ancklers, so, and pleas your noble Grace, we make our schoois