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▪ I. twine, n.1 (a.)|twaɪn|
Forms: 1 tuiᵹin, tuuin, tuin, 1–3 twin, 4–5, (7) twyn, 4–7 twyne, (5 tuyne, 6 twhyne, twind), 6– twine.
[OE. twín (also early twiᵹin) = Du. and Flem. twijn (in Kilian also tweyn), related to twine v.1, and ultimately from the stem of twi-. Cf. ON. and Icel. tvinni (Norw. dial. tvinne, Da. tvinde, dial. twin, twen, NFris. twin), Du. tweern, MLG. twern, MHG. and G. zwirn in the same sense.]
1. Thread or string composed of two or more yarns or strands twisted together; now spec. string or strong thread, made of hemp, cotton, or other fibre, used for sewing coarse materials (as canvas or sacking), tying packages, netting, and the like; with a and pl. a piece or kind of this.
In OE. found only as a rendering of L. byssus, bissus, prob. through association of this with bis twice. In mod. English use chiefly technical or commercial, but in Scotland and U.S. common as a general synonym of string.
c725Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 343 Byssum, tuin. a800Erfurt Gloss. 138 Byssum, tuiᵹin. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xiv. 83 Ðæt hræᵹl..of twispunnenum twine linenum. Ibid. 87 Ðæt scyle beon twiðræwen twin on ðæm masseᵹierelan. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xvi. 19 He wæs ᵹescrydd mid purpuran & mid twine. c1205Lay. 14220 Nes þe þwong noht swiðe bræd, Buten swulc a twines þræd. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2016 (Ariadne), By a clewe of twyn [v.r. twyne] as he hath gon..he may returne a-non. 14..Hoccleve Ad beatam Virginem 71 His sotil snares, and cacchynge twyn. c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 23 A fourfold þrede of silk white or of strong lyne or tuyne. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 63 Paid for marlyn twyn xvj. d. c1500New Not-br. Mayd 297 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 284 Shetis clene, to lye betwene, made of thred and twyne. 1512–13Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 106 Pro vj li. lez sayll twyne..xviijd. 1592R. D. Hypnerotom. 17 b, A spindle ful of twind. 1614Gorges Lucan viii. 346 A twine, That strangle may this throate of mine. 1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xxxi. 150 The Cases..must be Armed about with strong Twine or Cord. 1719De Foe Crusoe (Globe) 20 A Parcel of Twine or Thread. Ibid. 578 We had Twine or Packthread. 1791Cowper Odyss. x. 30 The winds,..so bound With silver twine that not a breath escaped. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) iii. xii, No garters, except twine, which you are at last obliged to use. 1827D. Johnson Ind. Field Sports 42 To these cords a small twine or silk thread is fixed. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3659, Cotton twines run 30 per cent. longer length than hemp, same weight. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., Irish twine or thumb-line, like nettles, is worked by the fingers from fine yarns drawn from bolt-rope. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold vi, He had a bundle of twine between his teeth.
b. transf. and fig. in various applications.
1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 165 Of her vntrue professed loue so feble is the twine. 1567Drant Horace, Epistles ii. i. G vij, Our toyle..in making of our poems..By drawing them so featly forth and with so cleane a twyne. 1595Markham Sir R. Grinvile cxxiii, Behold a goddesse shall my lifes twine breake. 1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue ii. 279 That sacred Twine Which Man to Man, and Man to God doth joyn. 1615Hieron Wks. I. 595 An holy twine, artificially made vp..of three seuerall threeds..for the fastning of the soule of a Christian to his God. 1667Dryden Secret Love iii. i, Destiny..Spinn's all their fortunes in a silken twine. 1728–46Thomson Spring 210 The dissolving clouds Form..thy showery prism; And..unfold The various twine of light. a1763Shenstone Elegies xviii. 58 Rob'd in the Gallic loom's extraneous twine. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxv. 187 It liketh us to go to our King's court through the crash of battle rather than through the hank of the hangman's twine.
2. A twined or twisted object or part.
a. A twining or trailing stem or spray of a plant.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Oct. 111 My temples..girt in girlonds of wild Yuie twine. 1590― F.Q. i. vi. 14 With an yuie twine his waste is girt about. 1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. 35 The root..with many long twines or branches growing from it. a1678Marvell Appleton Ho. 609 Bind me, ye woodbines, in your 'twines. 1908Blackw. Mag. Oct. 536 Golden clusters from the twine depend.
b. A fold; a coil; a convolution; a twist or turn in the course of anything.
1600Fairfax Tasso xviii. c, That glorious ensigne, with a thousand twines. 1629Milton Nativity 226 Typhon huge ending in snaky twine. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. To Rdr. 191 A trayterous spider in the Twine Of her owne Thred. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xiii, A diadem of gold..And clasp'd within its glittering twine Was seen the glove of Argentine. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. I. 22 As full of twines as a sheep-track.
c. A tangle, knot, snarl. In quots. fig.
1865J. Thomson Art i. i, Such subtle knots and twines! 1869Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 778 So multiplied were reasons pro and con, Delicate, intertwisted and obscure, That Law refused loan of a finger-tip To unravel, re⁓adjust the hopeless twine.
3. The action or an act of twining.
a. An embrace, a clasping. Now rare or Obs.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 84 Clipping the strumpet with luxurious twines. 1607Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i, The twyns of Adders, and of Scorpions..will seem to me More tickling than those claspes, which men adore. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 301 Aspiring Vines, Embracing Husband Elms in am'rous twines. 1759W. Mason Caractacus Poems 1830 II. 78 In undulating twine, The foaming snakes prolific join. a1839L. E. Landon Poems (1844) I. 34 The lattice..Half hidden by a bridal twine Of jasmine with the emerald vine.
b. poet. in various applications: see quots.
1615Chapman Odyss. x. 306 As she some web wrought; or her spindles twine She cherisht with her song. 1652J. Ramsey in Fletcher's Wild Goose Chase Pref. Verses a ij, Till to his watry Center he [sc. the river] hath got By wrigling twines, subtile as Fletcher's plot. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls, Pan & Luna 51 Vain each twist and twine Those lithe limbs try.
c. A turn of fortune, a vicissitude.
1768Ross Helenore iii. 124 A' that's past By unko twines, has fa'en sae well.
†4. as adj. Made by twining or twisting; twisted; spun. Obs. rare. (See also twine thread.)
1513Douglas æneis iv. x. 102 The god..biddis smyte the twyne cabill in tuay. 1583Durham Wills (Surtees) II. 78, ij paire of twine roppes.
†b. Of a line: Forming a spiral; helical. Obs. rare—1.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. Defin., A twine or twist line..goeth as a wreyth about some other bodie.
5. attrib. and Comb., as twine-ball (ball n.1 10 c), twine-box, twine colour, twine-cord, twine-maker, twine net, twine netting, twine-reel, twine-tone; twine-coloured, twine-like, twine-toned adjs.; twine-making, twine-twisting adjs. and ns.; also twine-binder, a binder which ties the sheaves with twine (cf. wire-binder); so twine-binding a.; twine-bush, an Australian shrub, Hakea flexilis, N.O. Proteaceæ (Cent. Dict. 1889, s.v. Hakea); twine cloth, fine cotton shirting, calico; twine-cutter: see quot.; twine-grass, the Tufted Vetch (Vicia Cracca), or the Hairy Vetch (V. hirsuta); twine-holder, twine-machine, † twine-masking [cf. mask n.1], twine-reeler: see quots.; twine-spinner, one who spins twine; so twine-spinning; twine-wheel, in a spinning-machine, a wheel through which the twisting motion is given. See also twine thread.
1889Pall Mall G. 26 Dec. 5/3 Freethinkers who imagine themselves able to sound with their penny *twine-balls the ocean of immensity.
1902Sci. Amer. Supp. 20 Dec. 22546/3 A practical *twine binder.
Ibid., He established *twine binding machines as the grain harvesters of the time.
1907Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 2/1 In the tinsmiths' shop..*twine-boxes, boxes for stamping-pads, and similar articles, are turned out.
1815Roy. Milit. Chron. June Advt., The New Imperial *Twine Cloth..for family use and for Sheeting.
1882Daily News 3 June 3/1 Lace in the prevalent *twine colour.
1897Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 3/2 Nile green and *twine-coloured lace.
1712Steele Spect. No. 444 ⁋4 A *Twine-Cord, strained with two Nails at each End, over his Window. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3800 Twine cord and line.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Twine-cutter, a blade or knife on a table, stand, or counter, to cut twine when tying packages.
1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VI. ii. 48 (E.D.S.) Wild thetch or *twine-grass.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Twine-holder, a box or case to hold a ball of twine on a counter.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 82 Lank, black, *twine-like hair.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Twine-machine, a spinning-machine for small hempen or cotton string.
1815Simond Tour Gt. Brit. II. 79 A number of *twine-makers.
1904Daily News 18 May 5 At eleven I started *twine-making.
1615E. S. Britain's Buss B iij, The 7 deepinges of each net are to be sowed, each to other, altogether, with a small thred called, *Twine Masking.
1855Poultry Chron. II. 574 One tarred *Twine Net, 9 feet long, by 9 wide.
1854Ibid. I. 228 New *twine netting..one yard wide, 1½d. per yard.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Twine-reel, a shop reel or box for holding string.
Ibid., *Twine-reeler, a mule-doubler; a string-twister.
1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6128/4 Foulk Wyatt,..*Twine-spinner or Ropemaker. 1896Daily News 14 Nov. 7/6 A retired twine spinner.
1808Pict. London 235 Rope-making and *twine-spinning.
1900Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 3/1 *Twine-toned lawn... To get that *twine-tone,..one must either tint one's white collar with tea or coffee or [etc.].
1897Daily News 1 June 1/1 *Twine twisting and polishing mills for making the yarns into twines and thread.
1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning viii. 159 The driving power comes..through all the *twine wheels, to the front roller.
Hence ˈtwineless a., destitute of twine.
1909A. Reid Kirriemuir ii. 12 They were the laddies' ‘strings’ in an almost twineless age.
▪ II. † twine, n.2 Obs. nonce-wd.
[app. f. twi- after trine (cf. twinity, s.v. twin a. and n.).]
Division, separation, disunion.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnif. 1338 Th' Vnity dwels in God, i' th' Fiend the Twine.
▪ III. † twine
app. an error for tunny.
The form is prob. due to mere copying of a misprint.
1601Chester Love's M. (1878) 100 Here swimmes the Shad..The Twine, the Trout, the Scallop, and the Whiting. [Cf. 1589 Rider Bibl. Schol. 1724 A fish called a Twinne..Pelamys; ed. 1617 ii. Thinnie; ed. 1640 Thunny.]
▪ IV. twine, v.1|twaɪn|
Forms: 4–7 twyne, 4 (9 dial.) tweyne, 4–5 twyn, 6 Sc. tuyn, 6– twine. pa. tense and pple. twined; also pa. tense 6 Sc. twane; pa. pple. 4 twynnen, 6 twon, 7 twone. See also twind v.
[ME. twīnen, = WFris. twine, twynje, Du. twijnen (in Kilian also tweynen), related to twine n.1 Cf. Icel., Norw., Sw. tvinna, Da. tvinde (NFris. twinne, etc.), and Du. tweernen, MLG. twernen, MHG. and G. zwirnen (OHG. zwirnên), to twist (thread).]
I. trans.
1. To twist (two or more strands or filaments) together so as to form a thread or cord; to twist (one thread, etc.) with another; to form (thread or cord) by twisting or spinning; to spin (yarn, etc.) into thread or cord; also generally, to combine or make compact by twisting.
c1275Lay. 14220 Nas þe þwang noht brod Bote ase hit were a twined þred [c 1205 a twines þræd]. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 191 Þe tayl & his toppyng [were] twynnen of a sute & bounden boþe wyth a bande. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 204 To a torche or a tapre þe trinitee is lykned; As wex and a weke were twyned [v.rr. tweyned, twynnyd] togideres. 14..Tundale's Vis. (Wagner) 1885 The cordes..were alle wyth silver twynned [rime shynned]. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 8 My fatal threed..Wych lachesys hath twynyd ful yerys fyfty. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. viii. (Preach. Swallow) xxx, His wyfe it span, and twynit [Bann. MS. twane] it in to threid. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §25 Make a lyttell rope..and twyne it as harde together bytwen your handes as ye canne, and soo beynge hard twon,..cut it. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 91 They..do curiously keame their dainty locks..and, hauing twined and bound them vp, they couer them with calles. 1681in New Mills Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S.) Introd. 86 [Wool] to be carded spunn twisted and twyned for listing to the cloaths made. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 357 Let him..twine The Sallow Twigs to tye the stragling Vine. 1803R. Anderson Cumberld. Ball. 55, I mind..at her wheel, How she'd tweyne the slow thread. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxv, We'll twine a double strong halter for the Captain. 1899Rider Haggard Swallow xi, To twine little threads into a rope.
b. fig.
14..Beryn 686 Þe Nyȝtyngale, His amerous notis, lo, how he twyneth smale! [Cf. out-twine v., quot. a 1400]. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas i. xi. (MS. Bodl. 263) 52/2 Whan Antropos our lyuys threed hath twyned. 1612Two Noble K. ii. ii. 70 Our fortunes Were twyn'd together. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxvii. (1739) 128 By Oath, which to make sure, was treble twined. 1670Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. Granada iv. ii, My clue of Life is twin'd with Ozmyn's Thred. 1827Scott Highl. Widow i, If I persisted in twisting the discourse one way while Donald was twining it another, I should make his objection, like a hempen-cord,..the tougher. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Pref. (1865) 236 To imply and twine with his own identity the griefs and affections of another. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 77 So closely twined are the threads of human faith and scepticism.
c. transf. To form by interlacing; to weave, to wreathe.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xv. 139 The Naiads..some dainty Chaplets twine. 1697Dryden Virg. æneid viii. 365 A double wreath Evander twin'd. 1709Prior Love & Friendship 51 I'll twine fresh Garlands for Alexis' Brows. 1817Moore Lalla R. (1824) 311 Oh! twine that wreath for me tonight. 1858W. T. Matson Armiger iv. Poems 59 Mourning garlands twined of many a bloom Of doleful hue.
d. transf. To interlace, entwine.
1679S. Lee in Row's ‘Emmanuel’ Pref., Pray for the mantle..of Elijah, for the love of John, and the zeal of Paul, to twine hands together. a1701Maundrell Journ. Jerus., Euphrates (1732) 2 Two Syrens..twining their fishy Tails together. 1870Mrs. J. H. Riddell Austin Friars ii, She only sat still, with her fingers twined together. 1880Blackw. Mag. Feb. 218 Reata..sat twining her fingers together in silence.
2. To cause (one thing) to encircle or embrace another; to twist, wreathe, clasp, or wrap (a thing) about or around another; also, to insert (one thing) in or into another with a twisting or sinuous movement (also fig.).
c1585Montgomerie Sonn. viii. 9 About his temple tuyn Ȝour laurell leivis with palmis perfytly plet. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. ii. i. Wks. 1856 I. 89, I have but newly twone my arme in the curld locks Of snakie vengeance. 1607Shakes. Cor. iv. v. 112 Let me twine Mine armes about that body. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 513 In many places he insinuates himselfe within the Land by Gulfes or Bayes, twining his louing armes about some whole countries. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 239 Long bracelets of peeces of gold twined about his arme. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard., Loves Plants ii. 180 Round the white circlet in relievo bold, A Serpent twines his scaly length. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 38 (The Wife) The vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak. 1838Sparks Biog. IX. 27 The only garment they possess is a blanket elegantly twined about them. 1853Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ii. 25 ‘Tropes’..twined and threaded into the words of the daily service. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxxii, My lady twined her fingers in her amber curls. 1890R. Bridges Shorter Poems (1912) 298, I feel thy being twine Her graces over me. 1901T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxi. 220 The stem [of the pipe]..formed separately by twining a strip of clay round a thin stick of palm cane.
b. refl.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. Interpr., Vitis alba..twyneth it self aboute brambles, wyth hys tendrelles, as a vine byndeth it selfe to trees. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 10 One end of the rope..twin'd itself about one of the Rocks. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 220 They [Snakes] have sometimes twined themselves round the bodies of children, squeezing them till they die. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Poor Relations, Awful ideas..twined themselves about his presence. 1852Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xvii. 216 Round which the heart's best affections have twined themselves.
3. To enfold, wreathe, or encircle (one thing) with another; also of a plant, wreath, etc.: to clasp, encircle, enwrap. Also fig.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 111 Maist thou be twined with the softst embrace Of clere eternitie. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock iii. 161 Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine. 1790W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 3 Branches of trees twined round with ivy. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 102 The weed of ruin darkly twines Her marble walls. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, Boys, with their May-gads (peeled willow wands twined with cowslips). 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 127 Twining the bare stem of old tradition with graceful sentiment.
4. a. To turn (something) about, away, round, etc.; to twist or wring. Now dial.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. v, O, twine your body more about, that you may fall to a more sweet, comely, gentleman-like guard. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvii. lvii, From the waste shore their steps at last they twinde. Ibid. xx. cxxviii, She shrikes, and twines away her sdeignefull eies, From his sweete face. a1655J. Naylor Answ. Perfect Pharisee 12 You wrest and twine the Scriptures. 1901F. E. Taylor Folk-Speech S. Lanc. s.v. (E.D.D.), Iv aw catch him, aw'll twoine his neck reawnd.
b. To get off, or out, by twisting. Now dial.
1600Fairfax Tasso xi. xliii, He..from the wound the reed out twinde, But left the iron in his flesh behinde. 1705S. Wesley in Quiller Couch Hetty Wesley (1913) I. ix. 87 The iron latch of my door was twined off. 1885Ballads & Poems Glasgow Club 213 Twine out his lugs, root out his tongue.
II. intr.
5. To wind or twist (about, over, or round something); almost always of a plant: to grow in a twisting or spiral manner; spec. to become twisted or wreathed together in growing; to grow in spiral convolutions. Also fig.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1691 Faxe fyltered,..Þat schad fro his schulderes..& twenty-folde twynande hit to his tos raȝt. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 64 b, It [woodbine] twineth like a threede or line, about other herbes and fruits. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 873 Some [bushes] twin'd about her thigh to make her stay. 1647Crashaw Panegyr. Dk. York's Birth 38 For whose manly brow Both laurels twine into one wreath. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 7 Like the wanton ivy..it will twine about our judgments and understandings. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 17 Amidst thy Laurels let this Ivy twine. a1748Thomson Happy Man 9 For whom the cooling shade in summer twines. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxvi, Where Ellen's hand had taught to twine The ivy and Idæan vine. 1831James Phil. Augustus I. ii, A thousand shrubs and flowers twined..over them. 1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. viii. 136 His heart and will twined..round the fragments. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 772 Only a few plants twine to the right..the greater number twine to the left. 1879Tennyson Lover's T. i. 128 The light soul twines and mingles with the growths Of vigorous early days.
†b. To become entangled or complicated. Obs. rare.
1658Osborn Adv. Son Wks. (1673) 220 Whilst one is unraveling, another twines.
†6.
a. Of a weapon: To twist or turn aside. Obs.
c1400Rowland & Otuel 557 Þe Sarazene..hit hym on þe hede..And nere þe swerde twynede hade, His life þer hade he lefede.
†b. Of timber: To be contorted or irregular in formation. Obs. rare.
1601Holland Pliny xvi. xxxviii. I. 486 If a man lay his eare close to one end of a beame or peece of timber, he shall heare the knocke or pricke that is made but with a penknife at the other end... By this meanes also a man shall find when the timber doth twine. Ibid. xvi. xl. 490 Because it twineth and casteth not, it is passing good for hinges and hookes, for sawne bords, for ledges in dores and gates.
7. To extend or proceed in a winding manner; to bend, incline circuitously; to wind about, meander; of a serpent, etc., to crawl sinuously (also refl.).
1553[see twining vbl. n.]. 1601Holland Pliny vi. xvii. I. 124 Streight forth, as farre as to that place where India beginneth to twine and bend toward the Indian sea. 1610Holland Camden's Brit., Irel. ii. 117 The shore, as it twineth backe from hence Southerly. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 2 The 28th we twined into the Downs. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 291 The river runns twineing about. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 464, I have been forced to twist and twine over a great deal more ground than had otherwise been needful. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. ix, The snake..twines himself through the grass. 1857Gosse Omphalos ii. 40 Sea-worms twined over the mud. 1902Buchan Watcher by Threshold 267 The little brown river..twined to the sea. 1913Daily News 28 Mar. 6 A highway..twining through a wilderness.
†b. To turn away. Obs. rare.
1600Fairfax Tasso xviii. xxxiii, But yet the knight, wise, warie, not vnkind, Drew foorth his sword and from her carelesse twind. 1614W. Browne Shepherd's Pipe B vj b, He twyned thence, and home to his countree.
†c. To bend, bow, or sink down. Obs.—1
1600Fairfax Tasso xx. xliii, Right on the front he gaue that Ladie kinde A blow, so huge,..That out of sense and feeling, downe she twinde.
8. To contort the body; to writhe, wriggle, squirm. Now dial.
1666Bunyan Grace Abounding §166 Thus did I wind, and twine, and shrink under the burthen that was upon me. 1680V. Alsop Mischief Impos. iii. 19 When men are pincht with plain Scripture, they use to twist and twine and turn themselves into all shapes to get out of their streights. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 75 The antagonists tumbling and twining with each other. 1837Mrs. Palmer Devonshire Dial. ii. 17 I'd twack thee till I made thee twine like an angletwitch. 1877Mrs. M. Trotter Gall. Gossip 290 The wean twining and kicking.
▪ V. twine, v.2 Sc.
[Later form of twin v.1, prob. by misunderstanding of ambiguous spellings under the influence of twine v.1]
intr. and trans. To separate, part, etc.; = twin v.1 in various uses.
It is doubtful whether an inf. twyne is to be assumed for the ME. examples of the pa. tense twynde cited below; in other cases the form is shown by rimes or other evidence to be a mere variant of twin v.1 The spelling twin'd is ambiguous, and may represent either twined or twinned.[c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6305 In partyes he it twynde, Ȝit sulde he..within a while Aboute his nek it fynde. a1500New Nut-brown Maid 303 in Hazlitt E.P.P. III. 13 And I am twynde Out of his mynde, Ryght as a banysshed man.] 1621[see quot. 1567 s.v. twin v.1 2 a]. 1728Ramsay Robt., Richy, & Sandy 57 Twin'd of its nourishment it lifeless lay. 1795Burns Destr. Woods Drumlanrig v, What ruefu' chance Has twin'd ye o' your stately trees? a1800Bob Norice vi. in Child Ballads (1886) II. 267/2 To twyne him o his wife. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xviii, ‘You and me must twine’, I said... ‘I will hardly twine from ye, David, without some kind of reason for the same’, said Alan. 1894R. Reid in Poets of Dumfriesshire x. (1910) 303 Cauld maun his heart be, twined o' its joys. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags 31 What cause is guid that twines a woman frae her ain man? |