*Turnpike. A wire set by a poacher across a hare's run (Amateur Poacher, chs. ii. and vii).—N.W.
Turvin. See Tuffin.
Tutto. See Totty.—N.W.
Tutty. See Totty (S.).—N. & S.W.
*Tut-work. Piece-work (S.).—S.W.
Twinge. (1) n. A long flat cake or loaf of bread.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) n. A piece of dough, moulded for making into bread.—S.W. (Deverill.)
*Twire. To look wistfully at anything (A.B.C.). 'How he did twire an' twire at she, an' her wouldn't so much as gie 'un a look!' In Cunnington MS. the word is said to have been in common use at that time in N. Wilts.
'The wench ... twired and twinkled at him.'—Fletcher, Women Pleased, p. 41.
'Compare Prov. Germ, zwiren, to take a stolen glance at a thing.—Smythe-Palmer.
*Twi-ripe. Ripening unevenly (D.).
Twit. In cider-making, the same as Perkins, q.v.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)