twine

to clasp or enfold (something) around something else; place by or as if by winding (usually followed by about, around, etc.): She twined her arms about the sculpture and carried it away.

11.

to cause (a person, object, etc.) to be encircled with something else; wreathe; wrap: They twined the arch with flowers.

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verb (used without object)

12.

to wind about something; twist itself in spirals (usually followed by about, around, etc.): Strangling vines twined about the tree.

13.

to wind in a sinuous or meandering course.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English twine (noun), twinen (v.), Old English twīn (noun) literally, a double or twisted thread; cognate with Dutch twijn; akin to German Zwirn, Old Norse tvinni thread, twine; see twi-

Related forms

twine·a·ble, adjective

twin·er, noun

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object), twined, twin·ing. Scot.

to separate; part.

Also, twin.

Origin:
1175–1225; late Middle English twinen, variant of earlier twinnen, derivative of twin twin¹

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twine (twaɪn)

—n
1.	string made by twisting together fibres of hemp, cotton, etc
2.	the act or an instance of twining
3.	something produced or characterized by twining
4.	a twist, coil, or convolution
5.	a knot, tangle, or snarl

—vb (when intr, often foll by around)
6.	(tr) to twist together; interweave: she twined the wicker to make a basket
7.	(tr) to form by or as if by twining: to twine a garland
8.	to wind or cause to wind, esp in spirals: the creeper twines around the tree

[Old English twīn; related to Old Frisian twīne, Dutch twijn twine, Lithuanian dvynu twins; see twin]

'twiner

—n

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Word Origin & History

twine

O.E. twin "double thread," from P.Gmc. *twizna- (cf. Du. twijn, Low Ger. twern, Ger. zwirn "twine, thread"), from the same root as twin (q.v.). The verb meaning "to twist strands together to form twine" is recorded from c.1275; sense of "to twist around something" (as twine

does) is recorded from c.1300.

Example sentences

The artist completely covered their contents with often intricately folded fabric and bound them with rope or twine.

If you were to pull on a single strand of twine in this ball, and you were to do this gently, it is possible to unravel the ball.

The cotton twine may not be looped around or tied to the web bars.

The frenzied way someone had wrapped twine around the bulging case suggested a

disturbing record of attempted escapes.

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