betwixt
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betwixt preposition Between. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1783 Washington Co Petition ... thence running a North Course to the dividing Line Betwixt Sullivan and Washington Counties, thence along sd line to the Chimney top Mountain. 1862 Love CW Letters (Sept 10) we haft to drill one our be fore break first and one our be tweixt that and dinner. 1864 Chapman CW Letters (May 15) I. am in hopes this war will wind up betwixt now and next winter. 1928 (in 1952 Mathes Tall Tales 56) He said they’d told him what was writ on Tom’s monument stone, an’ them words kep a-risin’ up betwixt him an’ his Maker. 1950 Stuart Hie Hunters 168 If ye take another step, I'll larrup ye with this ear of corn right betwixt the eyes. 1976 GSMNP-114:3 You can see back twixt that house and that tree. Ibid. 114:27 It’s down here betwixt here and Walland.