Numeral
Three, as coordinate term to (and used in similar sentences to) twain.
Usage- Humorous
- nonstandard
- often
- Examples
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Or, all the churches give up their names and get married in a union organization—the twain (or "thrain") becoming one flesh. None of these things occurred at Pepperell.
[…] twain - yes, they used old words and proverbs and catch-phrases and slogans when they did not wish to face reality - shall meet, because if the twain, or the thrain, or the quain, or the multain complications of life, and love[…]
"[The] twain meet—or is that thrain?" "That's brilliant!" I said.
[…] sink me ship, master gunner, sink her, split her in twain—or thrain, if you feel like it. Don't bother about anything else; she's your bird.
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"Tis not an omen, but an assassin, Banh." […] "A thing may be twain or thrain at once, my student."
I am torn in twain, thrain, and quatrain![…]