Definition of twills Twills

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Noun Plural: twills
twill - a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs
		cloth, textile, fabric, material artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
twill - a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs
		twill weave
		weave pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric
Verb twill, twilling, twould
twill - weave diagonal lines into (textiles)
		tissue, weave interlace by or as if by weaving

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twill (Noun)
A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
twill (Noun)
A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern.
twill (Verb)
To weave cloth, etc. so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.

twill (v. i.)
To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
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.
twill (v. t.)
A fabric women with a twill.
twill (v. t.)
A quill, or spool, for yarn.

twill
twil, or Tweel, twēl, n. a woven fabric, in which the warp is raised one thread, and depressed two or more threads for the passage of the weft—thus giving a curious appearance of diagonal lines: a fabric with a twill.—v.t. to weave with a twill. [Low Ger. twillen, to make double, twill, a forked branch; cf. Sw. tvilling, twin, Ger. zwillich, twill.]