Definition of twill

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Twill (v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface..

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Dimity :: Dimity (n.) A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors..
Gambroon :: Gambroon (n.) A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.
Twilled :: Twilled (imp. & p. p.) of Twil.
Bombazet Bombazette :: Bombazet Bombazette (n.) A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled..
Tobine :: Tobine (n.) A stout twilled silk used for dresses.
Serge :: Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes..
Beaverteen :: Beaverteen (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing..
Drilling :: Drilling (n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton..
Jean :: Jean (n.) A twilled cotton cloth.
Twill :: Twill (v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving..
Silesia :: Silesia (n.) A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings..
Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..
Shalloon :: Shalloon (n.) A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff..
Armure :: Armure (n.) A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.
Sural :: Surah (n.) A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.
Bombazine :: Bombazine (n.) A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments..
Twill :: Twill (v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface..
Drap D'ete :: Drap d'ete () A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino..
Jane :: Jane (n.) A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean.
Thickset :: Thickset (n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen..
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