TWEEDLE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

2.
v.

To twist. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.