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Word Meanings - TWISTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Twist. Chaucer.

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  • TWISTING
    a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
  • TWISTER
    A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
  • TWIST
    twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
  • TWISTED
    Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
  • TWISTE
    imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
  • INTERTWIST
    To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
  • UNTWIST
    1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
  • INTERTWISTINGLY
    By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
  • WATER TU TWIST
    Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
  • ENTWIST
    To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.

 

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