Tweē'dle, v. t.
(twē'dl), v. t. [Written also twidle.] [Cf. Ger. dudeln, to play badly on an instrument.]
Sense 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.
Sense 2. To twist. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.