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twista

twista [ME twist], part of hinge attached to door or gate (to hang and turn on a hook or pintle fixed in the post), twist. 1265 in cerura, clavis, gunphis, thuistis, vertinellis ad dicta hostia KR Ac 497/13; 1294 iiij paria twystarum ad fenestras Ib. 491/18; 1316 twist’, ringes, et lacches. in vij paribus ~arum emptis v s. vj d. Ib. 459/28 m. 3d.; c1389 in hokis, twystis, et clavis xij d Ac. Obed. Abingd. 54; c1438 in quatuor bordis ‥ pro hostio et fenestris ‥ in ij ~is et ij gumphis emptis ad idem opus viij d. Comp. Swith. 444.

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