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A river in the United Kingdom; a river in the Scottish Borders area which for part of its length forms the border between Scotland and England. It flows into the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: River Tweed
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name
A municipality and community therein, in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
An unincorporated community in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A local government area in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, named after the Tweed River; in full, Tweed Shire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A river in this region of New South Wales.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, white
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trouser, pant
noun
thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
Narrower terms: Harris Tweed
History
Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.
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