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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



... quite exciting. One of the boys, who had read African travels, prepared a leash of twine, and made a lasso, and with this he succeeded in catching the two hyenas. Then no one knew if all the beasts were caught or no. The boy who had read the travels could tell a long list of wild animals that ought to be in the ark. There was the ...
— The Last of the Peterkins - With Others of Their Kin • Lucretia P. Hale
... me, Come to the arcades of Araby, To the land of the date and the purple vine, Where pleasure her rosy wreaths doth twine, And gladness shall be alway thine; Singing at sunset next thy bed, Strewing flowers under thy head. Beneath a verdant roof of leaves, Arching a flow'ry carpet o'er, Thou mayst list to lutes on summer eves Their lays of rustic freshness pour, While upon the grassy floor Light footsteps, ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... for rafters spread, And withered heath and rushes dry Supplied a russet canopy. Due westward, fronting to the green, 520 A rural portico was seen, Aloft on native pillars borne, Of mountain fir with bark unshorn, Where Ellen's hand had taught to twine The ivy and Idaean vine, 525 The clematis, the favored flower Which boasts the name of virgin-bower, And every hardy plant could bear Loch Katrine's keen and searching air. An instant in this porch she stayed 530 And gaily to the stranger said, "On ...
— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... find faith to her mind, Seek you the peace of the groves Elysian, Or the ivy twine and the wands of vine, The Dionysian, Orphic rite? To share the joy of the Maenad's leaping In frenzied train thro' the dusk glen sweeping, The dew-drench'd dance and the star-watch'd sleeping, Or temple keeping ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... hastened to the "stores-line," as they called the rope that held their meats and other provisions. He discovered that several other articles besides the ham were missing. Even the pieces of twine with which the provisions had been fastened to ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska - The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass • Frank Gee Patchin


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