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Twine

noun

A lightweight cord. Synonym: string.

verb

(past & past part. twined; pres. part. twining)

Spin,wind, or twist together. Synonyms: enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace. "Twine the threads into a rope" , "Intertwined hearts" Antonym: untwine.

Arrange or or coil around. Synonyms: roll, wind, wrap. "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child" Antonym: unwind.

Make by twisting together or intertwining.

Form into a spiral shape. Synonyms: distort, twist. Antonym: untwist.

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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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