A small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year.
Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.
1 In India the tooth-brush consists of a twig or a little branch.
2 Once more she listened for the breaking twig and the light step.
3 Suddenly a twig was heard to snap in the thicket before him.
4 Yellow-Knobs hung up his hammock under a twig in the rose garden.
5 Then he took a twig from the bush and set him free.
6 He showed to the President of the House a twig of olive.
7 The breaking of a twig was as the discharge of a rifle.
8 They squatted together; Kyle scratched at the damp earth with a twig .
9 Not a mesquite twig snapped under his body; not a pebble rattled.
10 That is the beginning of a tendency-thefirst bending of a twig .
11 Every bush and little twig was loaded and hung down its head.
12 In passing beneath a tall fir-tree Roy chanced to touch a twig .
13 He moved a twig aside with his toe and transferred his weight.
14 I heard what sounded like a high-pitched crosscut saw belaboring a twig .
15 She was about to break the twig , but she hesitated and said:
16 The sailor then struck a light and set fire to a twig .
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