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Two-way. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Two-way a.

1   Hexham (1648), renders Du. twee-wegh by ‘a Two-way, or a double way.’

2   1.  Having, or connected with, two ways, roads, or channels; situated where two ways meet.

3   Two-way cock, one with two outlets, which may act together or alternatively.

4 1571.  Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxv. 12. We stand as it were in a twowayleete, in every of our dooings, we hang in doubt, and are at our wittes end.

5 1618.  Bolton, Florus, I. ix. 36. Being situated in the middest betweene Latium and Tuscanie, as it were in a two-way-leet.

6 1844.  Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 209. The gauge-cock, of which there are usually two, but sometimes one, a two-way cock.

7 1903.  Daily Record & Mail, 15 Dec., 4. As a burglar may be driven out of the house by judicious handling of a two-way switch.

8   2.  Math. Extending in two directions or dimensions, or having two modes of variation. (In quot. 1894 coinciding with sense 1.)

9 1891.  Cent. Dict., s.v., A surface is a two-way spread.

10 1894.  Cayley, Math. Papers, XIII. 507. The link may rotate in either direction … that is, B may move from B1 along b in either of the two opposite senses, say B1 is a ‘two-way point.’

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