atwixt

atwixt (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) Between.

   Synonym: betwixt

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 108:

     But with outrageous strokes did him restraine,
     And with his body bard the way atwixt them twaine.

   • 1789, David Sillar, “Epistle to J. W****N, Student of Divinity, Edinburgh” in Poems, Kilmarnock, p. 59,

     Whate’er ye are, be sure an’ fix’t;

     Opinions ne’er haltin’ atwixt;

   • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, OCLC 1016551263, book the, page 139:

     […] the boat’s drove tight by the tide ’atwixt two tiers of barges.

   • 1909, Zane Grey, The Last Trail, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 18, p. 218,

     “I kin take him from right here ’atwixt his eyes,” said Jenks softly, and tapped his rifle significantly.