twill

A fabric with diagonal parallel ribs.

The weave used to produce such a fabric.

To weave (cloth) so as to produce a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs.

A variety of textile fabric in which the weft-threads do not pass over and under the warp-threads in regular succession, as in common plain weaving. but pass over one and under two, over one and under three, or over one and under eight or ten, according to the kind of twill.

The raised line made by twilling.

A reed; a quill; a spool to wind yarn on.

To quill; trim with quilling or fluting.

The great fat pincushion lined with pink inside, and twilled like a lady’s nightcap.

A dialectal variant of till.

To weave in a particular way (see twill, n.), producing diagonal ribs in the stuff.