Definition of "twentie" [twentie]

• Obsolete spelling of twenty. (20) (noun)

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• "And you are further to know, that there be certaine waters that breed Trouts remarkable, both for their number and smalness — I know a little Brook in Kent that breeds them to a number incredible, and you may take them twentie or fortie in an hour, but none greater then about the size of a"
• "Samlet or Skegger Trout (in both which places I have caught twentie or fortie at a standing) that will bite as fast and as freely as Minnows; these be by some taken to be young Salmons, but in those waters they never grow to bee bigger then a Herring."
• "In Iewrie, of a Virgine, of the stocke of Dauid, a thousande fiue hundred, and twentie yeres gone37."