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twined, ppl. a.|twaɪnd| [f. twine v.1 + -ed1.] That has been twined, in various senses of the verb; twisted, plaited, curled, coiled, wreathed, etc.
c1275[see twine v.1 1]. 1510Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C ij, Filum contortum, twyned threde. 1513Douglas æneis vii. vii. 88 The round top of tre, Hit with the twynit quhyp, dois quherle. 1535Coverdale Judg. xvi. 9 He brake the roapes in sunder, euen as a twyned threde breaketh, whan it hath catched the heate of the fyre. 1539Bible (Great) Exod. xxvi. 36 An hangynge..of yelow sylke, purple, scarlet, & white twined silk. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 66 The substance of all that he hath alleged hitherto, hangeth only by a twined threed. 1568Satir. Poems Reform. xlviii. 35 Off all thir thre hewis I haif left clewis,..Tuynit and small. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 310 One hanges himselfe..with a twyned haulter. 1611Cotgr., Espée Romaine, certaine twined, and retorted haires on a horse;..by some called, a feather. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xi. 25 [It] spreds it self upon the Colon like a twined worm. 1799Hull Advertiser 23 Feb. 3/2, 500 millfuls of twined yarn. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. ii. 509 Priestcraft burns out, the twinèd linen blazes. 1900Crockett Black Douglas 1 The twined May-pole had not yet been taken down. |