atwixt

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English

Adverb

atwixt (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) Between.
    Synonym: betwixt
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 108:
      But with outrageous strokes did him restraine,
      And with his body bard the way atwixt them twaine.
    • 1789, David Sillar, “Epistle to J. W****N, Student of Divinity, Edinburgh”, in Poems‎, Kilmarnock, page 59:
      Whate’er ye are, be sure an’ fix’t;
      Opinions ne’er haltin’ atwixt;
    • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Our Mutual Friend. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1865, →OCLC, book the, page 139:
      […] the boat’s drove tight by the tide ’atwixt two tiers of barges.
    • 1909, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in The Last Trail‎, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 218:
      “I kin take him from right here ’atwixt his eyes,” said Jenks softly, and tapped his rifle significantly.
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