thwite

verb /θwaɪ̯t/

1. To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.

   obsolete

   Other shot forth theyr Boltes, and wyth theyr Prouerbes proceedyng from their malicious Mouthes thwited the pore Women at their pleasure.

Where it comes from

From Middle English thwiten, from Old English þwītan (“to cut, cut off”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną (“to split”). See whittle, thwittle, and compare thwaite (“a piece of land”), doit (“small coin, small amount, bit”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry thwite (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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