"twoth" meaning in English

See twoth in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Rhymes: -uːθ Etymology: From two + -th. Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|two|th}} two + -th, {{cog|fy|twadde||second}} West Frisian twadde (“second”), {{cog|nl|tweede||second}} Dutch tweede (“second”), {{cog|de|zweite||second}} German zweite (“second”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} twoth (not comparable)
  1. (dialectal) Second. Tags: dialectal, not-comparable Categories (topical): English ordinal numbers, Two
    Sense id: en-twoth-en-adj-Hou7qyoL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -th

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        {
          "ref": "1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302",
          "text": "The colonel would then shout, \"Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009",
          "text": "The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.",
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          "ref": "1995, Christian Lükemeyer with Tobias G. Noll, “An Optimized Coefficient Update Processor for High-Throughput Adaptive Equalizers”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "The computation of êk*xk-j is reduced to a controlled twoth complementer at the expense of a reduced adaptation speed.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops (SciFi), Trafford Publishing, page 13",
          "text": "Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured.",
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      "rhymes": "-uːθ"
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