Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweering
Literary usage of Tweering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"99: ' I saw the tweering constable of Finsbury with his Bench of Browne bill men.'
Cf. also Second Part Henry VI, iv. x. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... at 'tween their fingers', B. Jon- son, Sad Sheph. ii. 1 (Maud) ; Drayton, Pol.
xiii. 169 ; spelt tweer, 'The tweering constable', Middleton, ..."
3. The Young Lady's Cabinet of Gems: A Choice Collection of Pieces in Poetry by Virginia De Forrest (1860)
"... in wilderness afar,— And we sip it up, In a harebell cup, By the winking light
of the tweering star.; Wouldst thou know of me What our drink may be ? ..."
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