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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thwaite /θweɪt/

▶noun [in place names] a piece of wild land cleared or reclaimed for cultivation.

– origin ME: from ON thveit, thveiti ‘paddock’, lit. ‘cut piece’.

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