¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twitchers
1. twitcher [n] - See also: twitcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twitchers
Literary usage of Twitchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... in Heraldry, resembling what are now called twitchers, were instruments used
by farriers to curb and command unruly horses. B. are frequently introduced ..."
2. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"... in heraldry, resembling what are now called twitchers, were instruments used
by farriers to curb and command unruly horses. B. are frequently introduced ..."
3. A New and Impartial Collection of Interesting Letters from the Public Papers (1767)
"... the flames ! keeping for the entertainment of a fet of JEMMY twitchers, what
the twitchers are making the ..."
4. The Farriers's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary:: Containing the Art of ...by Thomas Wallis by Thomas Wallis (1766)
"There is another meaner fort of barnacles, ufed in detect of the former, called
roller barnacles, or wood-twitchers, which are only two rollers of wood ..."
Other Resources:
