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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



... preference. With the MSS. Roseleaf sent a pretty note, in which he included a delicate compliment on their success. The MSS. and the note were arranged tastefully in a neat white package and tied with pink twine. ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
... up the soil with a gang-plow and rakes the hay, but not in the primitive fashion of Maud Muller. She is frequently seen "comin' through the rye," the wheat, the barley or the oats, enthroned on a twine-binder. The writer has this day seen a woman seated on a four-horse plow as contentedly as her city cousin might be in an automobile. Among the many plow-girls of Nobles County is Coris Young, a genuine American of Vermont ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... worms. Then I was desired to hunt up all the odds and ends of worsted which lurked in the scrap-basket. A forage next took place in search of string, but as no parcels were ever delivered in that sequestered valley, twine became a precious and rare treasure. In default of any large supply being obtainable, my lamp and candle-wick material was requisitioned by F—— (who, by the way, is a perfect Uhlan for getting what he ...
— Station Amusements • Lady Barker
... contradicted him; his own hair had gone grey since that time, and Captain Hagberd's beard had turned quite white, and had acquired a majestic flow over the No. 1 canvas suit, which he had made for himself secretly with tarred twine, and had assumed suddenly, coming out in it one fine morning, whereas the evening before he had been seen going home in his mourning of broadcloth. It caused a sensation in the High Street—shopkeepers coming to their doors, people in ...
— To-morrow • Joseph Conrad
... cannot work without good food, besides it takes much time in baking Indian cakes for them in the woods, one hand continually imploy'd. * * We are very badly off indeed for Chalk lines, having nothing of that kind to make use of but twine." ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond


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