"Plym" is the swelling of wood when it is immersed in water; and "Thilk," another Anglo-Saxon word, means thus or the same.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
And when they of Milan heard that Thilk city was won, they sent to King Arthur great sums of money, and besought him as their lord to have pity on them, promising to be his subjects for ever, and yield to him homage and fealty for the lands of Pleasance and Pavia, Petersaint, and the Port of Tremble, and to give him yearly a million of gold all his lifetime.
"Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table"
Thomas Malory
3. 14. This is Thilk disciple that bereth witnessyng of these thingis, and wroot them.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
