Definition of "twixt"

O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to beeTwixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee.

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 172

I then took a strait That gave myself, and some few more, receipt 'Twixt Scylla and Charybdis.

1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857,

From all the dangers he foresees or fears; Yet every hour 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis steers.

c. 1700, John Pomfret, Upon the Divine Attributes