Meaning

A twist; a convolution..

Definitions by Sense

1. A twist; a convolution.
2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
3. The act of twining or winding round.
4. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
5. (transitive) To weave together.
6. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
7. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
8. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.

Example Sentences

Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:

The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]

The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm

1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music. The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …

Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]

She was twining her fingers together.

“Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”

Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.

Word Forms

• twines
• twyne
• twining
• twined

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