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Twine   /twaɪn/   Listen
noun
Twine  n.  
1.
A twist; a convolution. "Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine."
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.
Twine reeler, a kind of machine for twisting twine; a kind of mule, or spinning machine.



verb
Twine  v. t.  (past & past part. twined; pres. part. twining)  
1.
To twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen.
2.
To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. "Let me twine Mine arms about that body."
3.
To wind about; to embrace; to entwine. "Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine."
4.
To change the direction of. (Obs.)
5.
To mingle; to mix. (Obs.)



Twine  v. i.  
1.
To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.
2.
To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. "As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline."
3.
To turn round; to revolve. (Obs.)
4.
To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.






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"Twine" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman does not understand the words of action.—Look you, sir: exalt not your point above this state, at any hand, and let your poniard maintain your defence, thus:—give it the gentleman, and leave us. [Exit Tib.] So, sir. Come on: O, twine your body more about, that you may fall to a more sweet, comely, gentlemanlike guard; so! indifferent: hollow your body more, sir, thus: now, stand fast O' your left leg, note your distance, keep your due proportion of time—oh, you disorder ...
— Every Man In His Humor - (The Anglicized Edition) • Ben Jonson

... heart leaps, O beloved! God's child with his dew On thy gracious gold hair, and those lilies still living and blue Just broken to twine round thy harp-strings, as if no wild heat Were now raging to torture ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

... Saturday noon hour was witnessed only by the sparrows, who were too busy lugging bits of straw and twine to half-completed nests in the cornices of the House of Seagrave, to pay much attention to the combat of the Seagrave children, who had gone quite mad with the happiness of companionship and were expressing it with ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... their scalp downe to their foreheads, and vpon their foreheads they leaue a locke of hayre reaching downe vnto their eye browes: vpon the two hindermost corners of their heads, they haue two lockes also, which they twine and braid into knots and so bind and knit them vnder each eare one. Moreouer their womens garments differ not from their mens, sauing that they are somewhat longer. But on the morrowe after one ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt

... the grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various


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