Dictionary entry

Tweedle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Twee″dle (?), v. t. [Cf. Twiddle.] [Written also twidle.] 1. To handle lightly; — said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

2. To twist. Halliwell.