Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Twig \Twig\, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G.
   zweig, and probably to E. two.]
   A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no
   definite length or size.

         The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on
         the outside with hides.                  --Sir T.
                                                  Raleigh.

   {Twig borer} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
      beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the
      apple-tree twig borer ({Amphicerus bicaudatus}).

   {Twig girdler}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Girdler}, 3.

   {Twig rush} (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus {Cladium}
      having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or
      stalks. See {Saw grass}, under {Saw}.