twine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).
Inflected forms:
form: twines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: twyne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: twines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: twining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: twined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: twyne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A twist; a convolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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[…]
gloss: The act of twining or winding round.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm
gloss: Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 …
gloss: To weave together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me twine
Mine arms about that body […]
She was twining her fingers together.
gloss: To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,”
The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”
gloss: To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As rivers, though they bend and twine,
Still to the sea their course incline:
gloss: To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Many plants twine.
gloss: To turn round; to revolve.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades
gloss: To change the direction of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed,
He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,
gloss: To mingle; to mix.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine
Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.
Derived words: baler twine
devil's twine
sea twine
settler's twine
turtle-twine
twine reeler
entwine
intertwine
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