单词 | twine |
释义 | twinen.1adj. 1. a. 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 plural a piece or kind of this.In Old English found only as a rendering of Latin byssus, bissus, probably through association of this with bis twice. In modern English use chiefly technical or commercial, but in Scotland and U.S. common as a general synonym of string. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > spun > in specific way > twisted twinec725 twine thread1530 twist1555 throw1873 twofold1884 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > twine or string twine1692 string1827 c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 343 Byssum, tuin. a800 Erfurt Gloss. 138 Byssum, tuigin. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xiv. 83 Ðæt hrægl..of twispunnenum twine linenum. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xiv. 87 Ðæt scyle beon twiðræwen twin on ðæm massegierelan. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 19 He wæs gescrydd mid purpuran & mid twine. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7096 Nes þe þwong noht swiðe bræd buten swulc a twines [c1300 Otho twined] þræd. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 2016 By a clewe of twyn [v.r. twyne] as he hath gon..he may returne a-non. 14.. T. Hoccleve Ad Beatam Virginem 71 His sotil snares, and cacchynge twyn. c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 23 A fourfold þrede of silk white or of strong lyne or tuyne. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 63 Paid for marlyn twyn xvj. d. c1500 New Not-br. Mayd 297 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. II. 284 Shetis clene, to lye betwene, made of thred and twyne. 1512–13 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 106 Pro 6 li. lez sayll twyne, 18d. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 17v A spindle ful of twind. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia viii. 346 A twine, That strangle may this throate of mine. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxxi. 158 The Cases..must be Armed about with strong Twine or Cord. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 23 A Parcel of Twine or Thread. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 336 We had Twine or Packthread. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 30 The winds,..so bound With silver twine that not a breath escaped. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 51 No garters, except twine, which you are, at last, obliged to use. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 42 To these cords a small twine or silk thread is fixed. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3659 Cotton twines run 30 per cent. longer length than hemp, same weight. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Irish twine or thumb-line, like nettles, is worked by the fingers from fine yarns drawn from bolt-rope. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold vi He had a bundle of twine between his teeth. b. transferred and figurative in various applications. ΚΠ 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. U.iii Of her vntrue professed loue so feble is the twine. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Gvijv Our toyle..in making of Our poems..By drawinge them so featly forth, And with so cleane a twyne. 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile cxxiii Behold a goddesse shall my lifes twine breake. 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue ii. 279 That sacred Twine Which Man to Man, and Man to God doth joyn. 1615 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching in Wks. (1620) I. 595 An holy twine, artificially made vp..of three seuerall threeds..for the fastning of the soule of a Christian to his God. 1668 J. Dryden Secret-love iii. i. 25 Destiny..Spinn's all their fortunes in a silken twine. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 13 The dissolving Clouds Are..thy numerous Prism, Untwisting..The various Twine of Light. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 58 Rob'd in the Gallic loom's extraneous twine. 1895 S. R. Crockett 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > twining or trailing bindc1400 vine1563 twine1579 tangle-twine1878 the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tendril or twining shoot tenaclec1500 tendril1538 clasp1577 clasper1577 winder1577 capreol1578 taglet1578 twine1579 string1585 trail1597 tress1605 nervelet1648 cirrus1708 clavicle1725 twister1799 bine1808 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 111 My temples..girt in girlonds of wild Yuie twine. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. F With an yuie twyne his waste is girt about. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 35 The root..with many long twines or branches growing from it. a1678 A. Marvell Appleton House 609 Bind me, ye woodbines, in your 'twines. 1908 Blackwood's 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. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] rundlec1300 waif1513 enwrapping1543 convolution1545 entrail?a1549 wreath1555 roundness1572 spire1572 rolling1576 enfold1578 infold1578 obvolution1578 gyre1590 whorl1592 enfoldment1593 twine1600 turn1625 volume1646 volution1752 swirl1786 coil1805 swirling1825 convolute1846 whirl1862 enfolding1873 snaking1888 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. c. 335 That glorious ensigne, with a thousand twines. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxv, in Poems 11 Typhon huge ending in snaky twine. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 134 A trayterous spider in the Twine Of her owne Thred. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xiii. 239 A diadem of gold..And clasp'd within its glittering twine Was seen the glove of Argentine. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 22 As full of twines as a sheep-track. c. A tangle, knot, snarl. In quots. figurative. ΚΠ 1865 J. Thomson Art i. i Such subtle knots and twines! 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 126 So multiplied were reasons pro and con, Delicate, intertwisted and obscure, That law Were shamed to lend a finger-tip To unravel, readjust the hopeless twine. 3. The action or an act of twining. a. An embrace, a clasping. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun] beclipping1340 complexion1493 clipa1586 brace1589 twine1602 fold1609 grasp1609 claspa1616 abrazoa1626 colla1627 cling1633 hug1659 folding1713 squeeze1790 cuddle1825 bear squeeze1845 bear hug1870 clinch1901 bosie1952 side hug1984 cwtch1992 bro hug2000 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iv. sig. B4v Clipping the strumpet, with luxurious twines. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. D1v The twynes of Adders, and of Scorpions..will seeme to mee More tickling then those claspes, which men adore. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 80 Aspiring Vines; Embracing Husband Elms in am'rous twines . View more context for this quotation 1759 W. Mason Caractacus 10 In undulating twine, The foaming snakes prolific join. a1839 L. E. Landon Poems (1844) I. 34 The lattice..Half hidden by a bridal twine Of jasmine with the emerald vine. b. poetic in various applications: see quots. ΚΠ ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. 306 As she some web wrought; or her spindles twine She cherisht with her song. 1652 J. Ramsey On Mr. Fletchers Wild-goose Chase in J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase sig. a2 Till to his watry Center he [sc. the river] hath got By wrigling twines, subtile as Fletcher's plot. 1880 R. Browning Pan & Luna in Dramatic Idyls 51 Vain each twist and twine Those lithe limbs try. c. A turn of fortune, a vicissitude. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > instance of peripeteia1591 traverse1601 vicissitude1631 reverse1656 peripety1705 fluctuation1712 twine1768 revulsion1832 reversal1842 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 124 A' that's past By unko twines, has fa'en sae well. a. as adj. Made by twining or twisting; twisted; spun. Obsolete. rare. (See also twine thread n.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [adjective] > made of rope or cord > types of twine1513 twice-laid1592 basten1677 cable-laid1723 hawser-laid1769 water-laid1795 registered1800 shroud-laid1800 whale-laid1812 strap-laid1839 four-strand1867 locked-coil1885 trifilar1903 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. x. 102 The god..biddis smyte the twyne cabill in tuay. 1583 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 78 ij paire of twine roppes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical twine1551 snailing1615 spireda1625 involved1665 spiralled1665 screwlike1675 spiry1677 voluted1801 corkscrew1815 screwed1821 volute1839 spiriform1841 volutiform1843 spiring1871 corkscrewy1886 turbaned1924 spiralized1928 spiralizing1977 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Defin. A twine or twist line..goeth as a wreyth about some other bodie. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. twine-ball n. (see ball n.1 9b). ΚΠ 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Dec. 5/3 Freethinkers who imagine themselves able to sound with their penny twine-balls the ocean of immensity. twine-box n. ΚΠ 1907 Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 2/1 In the tinsmiths' shop..twine-boxes, boxes for stamping-pads, and similar articles, are turned out. twine colour n. ΚΠ 1882 Daily News 3 June 3/1 Lace in the prevalent twine colour. twine-cord n. ΚΠ 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ⁋4 A Twine-Cord, strained with two Nails at each End, over his Window. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3800 Twine cord and line. twine-maker n. ΚΠ 1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. II. 79 A number of twine-makers. twine net n. ΚΠ 1855 Poultry Chron. 2 574 One tarred Twine Net, 9 feet long, by 9 wide. twine netting n. ΚΠ 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 228 New twine netting..one yard wide, 1½d. per yard. twine-reel n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Twine-reel, a shop reel or box for holding string. twine-tone n. ΚΠ 1900 Westm. 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.]. b. twine-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 3/2 Nile green and twine-coloured lace. twine-like adj. ΚΠ 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 82 Lank, black, twine-like hair. twine-toned adj. ΚΠ 1900Twine-toned [see twine-tone n. at Compounds 1a]. c. twine-making adj. and n. ΚΠ 1904 Daily News 18 May 5 At eleven I started twine-making. twine-twisting adj. and n. ΚΠ 1897 Daily News 1 June 1/1 Twine twisting and polishing mills for making the yarns into twines and thread. C2. See also twine thread n. twine-binder n. a binder which ties the sheaves with twine (cf. wire-binder). ΚΠ 1902 Sci. Amer. Supp. 20 Dec. 22546/3 A practical twine binder. twine-binding adj. ΚΠ 1902 Sci. Amer. Supp. 20 Dec. 22546/3 He established twine binding machines as the grain harvesters of the time. twine-bush n. an Australian shrub, Hakea flexilis, N.O. Proteaceæ ( Cent. Dict. 1889, at Hakea). twine cloth n. fine cotton shirting, calico. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico Calico-cloth1540 Calicut-cloth1540 calico1652 twine cloth1815 nettle-cloth1858 1815 Royal Mil. Chron. June (advt.) The New Imperial Twine Cloth..for family use and for Sheeting. twine-cutter n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Twine-cutter, a blade or knife on a table, stand, or counter, to cut twine when tying packages. twine-grass n. the Tufted Vetch ( Vicia cracca), or the Hairy Vetch ( V. hirsuta). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > vetch vetchc1300 orobusa1398 tarec1400 ervil1551 ers1578 fowl-foot1578 oreb1587 urle1659 tare-grass1686 orobe1714 thetch1733 twine-grass1743 wood-vetch1766 tare-vetch1811 scorpion-wort1852–6 pigeon pea1884 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. ii. 48 Wild Thetch, or Twine-grass. twine-holder n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Twine-holder, a box or case to hold a ball of twine on a counter. twine-machine n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Twine-machine, a spinning-machine for small hempen or cotton string. ΚΠ 1615 E. S. Britaines Busse B iij The 7 deepinges of each net are to be sowed, each to other, altogether, with a small thred called, Twine Masking. twine-reeler n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Twine-reeler, a mule-doubler; a string-twister. twine-spinner n. one who spins twine. ΚΠ 1723 London Gaz. No. 6128/4 Foulk Wyatt,..Twine-spinner or Ropemaker. 1896 Daily News 14 Nov. 7/6 A retired twine spinner. twine-spinning n. ΚΠ 1802 J. Feltham Picture of London 235 Rope-making and twine-spinning. twine-wheel n. in a spinning-machine, a wheel through which the twisting motion is given. ΚΠ 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted viii. 159 The driving power comes..through all the twine wheels, to the front roller. Derivatives ˈtwineless adj. destitute of twine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [adjective] > made of rope or cord > destitute of twine twineless1909 1909 A. Reid Regality Kirriemuir ii. 12 They were the laddies' ‘strings’ in an almost twineless age. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † twinen.2 Obsolete. Division, separation, disunion.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > division or lack of unity unoning1340 schism1390 division1393 departmentc1450 rupture1583 secting1598 disunion1601 twine1606 section1639 distermination1647 scission1736 cleavage1867 non-union1909 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 77 Th' Vnitie dwels in God, ith' Fiend the Twine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † twinen.3 Apparently an error for tunny n.The form is probably due to mere copying of a misprint. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > tunny tunny1530 tunny fish1552 twine1601 ton1624 maguro1880 tuna1881 tuna fish1917 tuna meat1923 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 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.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2019). twinen.4 English regional (northern, now chiefly Cumberland). A whine, a moan. Also: a fretful or agitated state; a fit of ill temper, a bad mood. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > whine whiningc1440 whinge?a1513 whine1633 cant1640 whindle1647 whindling1648 whinging1720 beggar-whine1796 wheak1828 caterwaulinga1861 twine1876 whininess1934 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Twine, to whine discontentedly... Twine is also used substantively. 1899 Whitehaven News 5 Jan. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 286/1 My judgment's wrang, an' aw my twines an' frets Seems noo like silly, empty, false regrets. 1899 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 22 July in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 286/1 Poor barn! it's all of a twine t'day long. 2012 @Emma1991_ 2 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) God knows [what is the matter with him] he's just in a twine! 2017 @MentalParentals 29 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Having a good twine today—well, I am British and we do love complaining! This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twinev.1 I. transitive. 1. a. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (intransitive)] twinec1300 foldc1330 writhea1413 twind1575 spire1607 wreathe1776 coil1798 scroll1868 threada1879 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (transitive)] > other processes twinec1300 weave1426 scour1751 gas1825 double-deck1842 pin-work1853 c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 7096 Nas þe þwang noht brod bote ase hit were a twined þred [c1275 Calig. a twines þræd]. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman 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 [rhyme shynned]. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 191 Þe tayl & his toppyng [were] twynnen of a sute, & bounden boþe wyth a bande. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 8 My fatal threed..Wych lachesys hath twynyd ful yerys fyfty. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1830 in Poems (1981) 71 His wyfe it span, and twynit [1568 Bann. twane] it in to threid. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv Make a lytell rope..& twene it as harde togyder betwen yor handes as ye can, & so beyng hard twon..cut it. 1599 R. Hakluyt tr. E. de Sande in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 91 They..do curiously keame their dainty locks..and, hauing twined and bound them vp, they couer them with calles. 1681 in New Mills Cloth Manuf. (1905) Introd. 86 [Wool] to be carded spunn twisted and twyned for listing to the cloaths made. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 60 Let him..twine The Sallow Twigs to tye the stragling Vine. View more context for this quotation 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 49 I mind..at her wheel, How she'd tweyne the slow thread. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxv We'll twine a double strong halter for the Captain. 1899 H. R. Haggard Swallow xi To twine little threads into a rope. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. xi. 52/2 Whan Antropos our lyuys threed hath twyned. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 686 Þe Nyȝtyngale, His amerous notis, lo, how he twynyth smale! [Cf. quot. a1500 at outtwine v.]. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) ii. ii. 64 Our fortunes Were twyn'd together. View more context for this quotation 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 219 By Oath, which to make sure was treble twined. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iv. ii. 46 My clue of Life is twin'd with Ozmyn's Thred. 1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. viii. 160 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. 1828 C. Lamb Char. Late Elia in Elia 2nd Ser. 225 To imply and twine with his own identity the griefs and affections of another. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 77 So closely twined are the threads of human faith and scepticism. c. transferred. To form by interlacing; to weave, to wreathe. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)] wind971 braidc1000 writheOE biwevec1300 enlacec1374 winda1387 tracec1400 bredec1440 knit1470 embraid1481 interlace1523 entrail?1530 wreathea1547 beknit1565 twist1565 wand1572 embroid1573 mat1577 complect1578 intertex1578 inweave1578 lace1579 plight1589 entwine1597 bewreath1598 interweave1598 implicate1610 twine1612 complicatea1631 implex1635 intertwine1641 plash1653 enwreathe1667 raddle1671 intertwist1797 pleach1830 impleach1865 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xv. 240 The Naïads..some dainty Chaplets twine. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 445 A double Wreath Evander twin'd. 1709 M. Prior Love & Friendship 51 I'll twine fresh Garlands for Alexis' Brows. 1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 311 Oh! twine that wreath for me to-night. 1858 W. T. Matson Armiger iv. Poems 59 Mourning garlands twined of many a bloom Of doleful hue. d. transferred. To interlace, entwine. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil or twist together entertain1481 wreathe1553 wringle1572 weave1578 entwine1616 intertwine1641 encurl1647 betwine1661 intervolve1667 twine1679 interwind1693 implicate1826 interwreathe1866 thong1888 1679 S. 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. a1701 H. Maundrell Acct. Journey from Aleppo in Journey to Jerusalem (1721) 2 Two Syrens..twining their fishy Tails together. 1870 C. E. L. Riddell Austin Friars ii She only sat still, with her fingers twined together. 1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 218 Reata..sat twining her fingers together in silence. 2. a. 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 figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something) > coil (something) round or upon itself windc1325 wrap?1523 to roll up1530 wreathe1530 upwind1560 twist1582 twinec1585 circumvolute1599 bottom1612 rolla1616 overwhelm1634 c1585 A. Montgomerie Sonn. viii. 9 About his temple tuyn Ȝour laurell leivis with palmis perfytly plet. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. i. sig. C3 I haue but newly twone my arme in the curld locks Of snakie vengeance. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 513 In many places he insinuates himselfe within the Land by Gulfes or Bayes, twining his louing armes about some whole countries. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. v. 107 Let me twine Mine armes about that body. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 239 Long bracelets of peeces of gold twined about his arme. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 180 Round the white circlet in relievo bold, A Serpent twines his scaly length. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 40 The vine which has long twined its graceful foliage around the oak. 1838 J. Sparks Amer. Biogr. IX. 27 The only garment they possess is a blanket elegantly twined about them. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. 25 ‘Tropes’..twined and threaded into the words of the daily service. 1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. xiii. 289 My lady twined her fingers in her loose amber curls. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iv. xxviii. 84 I feel thy being twine Her graces over me. 1901 T. 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. reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (reflexive)] > coil round something twine1543 wreathe1580 1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. §§.iii/1 Uitis alba..twyneth it self aboute brambles, wyth hys tendrelles, as a vine byndeth it selfe to trees. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 10 One end of the rope..twin'd itself about one of the Rocks. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 220 They [Snakes] have sometimes twined themselves round the bodies of children, squeezing them till they die. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 536/1 Awful ideas of the Tower twined themselves about his presence. 1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. 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 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something) enlacec1374 whipc1500 wreathe1509 enwrap1578 circumvolute1599 twine1602 ingyre1610 wrap?1611 wire1645 serpenta1660 whirl1676 convolute1698 intertwine1717 entwine1796 overtwinea1817 enwind1849 warplea1870 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. iii. sig. F Maist thou be twined with the softst imbrace Of cleare eternitie. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 362 Let Wreaths of triumph now my Temples twine. 1790 W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 3 Branches of trees twined round with ivy. 1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 102 The weed of ruin darkly twines Her marble walls. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 4 Boys, with their May-gads (peeled willow wands twined with cowslips). 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 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 dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > turn (something) to a (different) direction i-wendeOE wendOE turnc1300 convertc1384 avirec1440 kyr1448 twine1600 wheel1805 to put about1832 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)] crooka1340 deprave1382 pervertc1390 strainc1449 drawc1450 miswrest?a1475 bewrya1522 wry?1521 to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529 writhea1533 wrest1533 invert1534 wring?1541 depravate1548 rack1548 violent1549 wrench1549 train1551 wreathe1556 throw1558 detorta1575 shuffle1589 wriggle1593 distortc1595 to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599 twine1600 wire-draw1610 monstrify1617 screw1628 corrupt1630 gloss1638 torture1648 force1662 vex1678 refract1700 warp1717 to put a force upon1729 twist1821 ply1988 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvii. lvii. 307 From the waste shore their steps at last they twinde. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. cxxviii. 389 She shrikes, and twines away her sdeignefull eies From his sweete face. 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iii. sig. C4 Oh twine your bodie more about, that you may come to a more sweet comely gentleman-like guard. View more context for this quotation 1653 J. Nayler Answer Perfect Pharisee 12 You wrest and twine the Scriptures. 1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech S. Lancs. s.v. (E.D.D.) Iv aw catch him, aw'll twoine his neck reawnd. b. To get off, or out, by twisting. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > twist out or up to wring outc1420 to wring upc1440 wrestc1450 outtwinea1500 throwa1500 outwrest1590 twine1600 screw1611 to ply out1668 wrench1726 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > from the position of being on > by twisting wrest1297 to wring offa1529 twine1705 offwringa1889 twist-off1932 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. xliii. 204 He..from the wound the reed out twinde, But left the iron in his flesh behinde. 1705 S. Wesley in Quiller Couch Hetty Wesley (1913) I. ix. 87 The iron latch of my door was twined off. 1885 Ballads & Poems Glasgow Club 213 Twine out his lugs, root out his tongue. II. intransitive. 5. a. 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 figurative. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1691 Faxe fyltered,..Þat schad fro his schulderes..& twenty-folde twynande hit to his tos raȝt. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 64v It [woodbine] twineth like a threede or line, about other herbes and fruits. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Fiij Some [bushes] twin'd about her thigh to make her stay. View more context for this quotation 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 42 For whose manly brow Both lawrels twine into one wreath. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 5 Like the wanton Ivie..it will twine about our Judgments and Understandings. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 35 Amidst thy Laurels let this Ivy twine. a1748 J. Thomson Happy Man 9 For whom the cooling shade in summer twines. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 32 Where Ellen's hand had taught to twine The ivy and Idæan vine. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus I. ii A thousand shrubs and flowers twined..over them. 1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. viii. 136 His heart and will twined..round the fragments. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 772 Only a few plants twine to the right..the greater number twine to the left. 1879 Ld. Tennyson Lover's Tale (new ed.) 14 The light soul twines and mingles with the growths Of vigorous early days. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > become tangled [verb (intransitive)] rivelOE tangle1575 ravela1585 snarl1600 harl1609 twine1658 reeve1821 foul1835 taffle1840 1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son in Wks. (1673) 220 Whilst one is unraveling, another twines. a. Of a weapon: To twist or turn aside. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > move obliquely > glide off obliquely gliff?c1225 twinec1400 glancea1500 slant?1521 glenta1533 c1400 Rowland & Otuel 557 Þe Sarazene..hit hym on þe hede..And nere þe swerde twynede hade, His life þer hade he lefede. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > actions of wood [verb (intransitive)] > warp warpc1440 twine1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxviii. 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. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 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. a. To extend or proceed in a winding manner; to bend, incline circuitously; to wind about, meander; of a serpent, etc., to crawl sinuously (also reflexive). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move in winding course to turn and winda1398 wreathea1500 twine1553 indent1567 virea1586 crank1594 to dance the hay or hays1600 maze1605 serpent1606 to indent the way1612 cringlea1629 indenture1631 circumgyre1634 twist1635 glomerate1638 winda1682 serpentine1767 meander1785 zigzag1787 zag1793 to worm one's way1822 vandyke1828 crankle1835 thread the needle1843 switchback1903 rattlesnake1961 zig1969 the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > change direction > turn or bend > bend or wind twine1553 crankle1598 crinklea1600 creek1610 straggle1612 wind1613 serpentize1699 wander1747 serpentine1767 meander1785 zigzag1787 serpentinize1791 twister1872 snake1875 twist1879 1553 [implied in: T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 101 A priuie twinyng, or close crepyng in, to win fauour.., called insinuation. (at twining n.)]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xvii. 124 Streight forth, as farre as to that place where India beginneth to twine and bend toward the Indian sea. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 117 The shore, as it twineth backe from hence Southerly. 1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 2 The 28th we twined into the Downs. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 291 The river runns twineing about. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 464 I have been forced to twist and twine over a great deal more ground than had otherwise been needful. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert ix, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 256 The snake..twines himself through the grass. 1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos ii. 40 Sea-worms twined over the mud. 1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold v. 267 The little brown river..twined to the sea. 1913 Daily News 28 Mar. 6 A highway..twining through a wilderness. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > turn round or to face a direction > turn away abowOE hieldc1275 to turn awayc1300 to hide one's facea1382 wrenka1400 awherfc1400 avert1483 to turn the backc1540 twine1600 averse1652 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. xxxiii. 322 But yet the knight, wise, warie, not vnkind, Drew foorth his sword and from her carelesse twind. 1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe B vj b He twyned thence, and home to his countree. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > fall down or from erect position fallOE to fall downc1175 torple?c1225 glidec1275 overthrowc1330 downfallc1350 swaya1400 reversea1470 twine1600 to go down1697 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. xliii. 372 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 dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] wendOE throwOE to-writhec1000 windc1000 wrenchc1050 writhec1300 wrenka1400 wrestle?a1400 chervec1440 wring1470 wrele1513 wriggle1573 wrincha1625 curla1637 twingle1647 twine1666 twirl1706 retort1720 1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §166 Thus did I wind, and twine, and shrink under the burthen that was upon me. 1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions 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. 1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 44 The antagonists tumbling and twining with each other. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 17 I'd twack thee till I made thee twine like an angletwitch. 1877 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Sixty Years Ago 290 The wean twining and kicking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twinev.2 Scottish. intransitive and transitive. To separate, part, etc.; = twin v.1 in various uses. It is doubtful whether an infinitive twyne is to be assumed for the Middle English examples of the past tense twynde cited below; in other cases the form is shown by rhymes 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] to-dealeOE shedc1000 asunderOE to-twemea1225 sunderc1225 twin?c1225 atwin?a1400 to make separationc1450 separe1490 twain15.. sever1545 unsever1609 spread1611 separate1638 disclaim1644 to come apart1764 to go separate ways1774 twine1886 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate or isolate [verb (transitive)] shedOE depart1297 externec1420 deforce1430 sequesterc1430 enstrange1483 estrange1523 separate1526 alienate1534 segregate1542 foreign1598 excommunicate1602 stranger1608 dissociate1623 discorporate1695 disincorporate1701 atomize1895 twine1895 ghetto1936 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6305 In partyes he it twynde, Ȝit sulde he..within a while Aboute his nek it fynde. c1535 New Nutbroune Maid 303 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 13 And I am twynde Out of his mynde, Ryght as a banysshed man.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). twinev.3 English regional (northern, esp. Cumberland) and Scottish. intransitive. To cry, to fret; to whine; to complain, to moan. Frequently with on. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] greetc725 weepc900 tearc950 plore1373 beweepc1374 to put one's finger in one's eye1447 waterc1450 lachryme1490 cryc1532 lerma1533 tricklec1540 to water one's plants1542 to show tears1553 shower1597 issuea1616 lachrymate1623 sheda1632 pipe1671 to take a pipe1671 to pipe one's eye (also eyes)?1789 twine1805 to let fall1816 whinnya1825 blub1866 slobber1875 blart1896 skrike1904 water-cart1914 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > mournful or plaintive [verb (intransitive)] > howl, wail, or whine yella1470 hurl1530 howl1687 gowl1724 twine1805 whine1874 bloop1926 1805 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (ed. 2) 144 For still 'tmun rather ease my meynde, At is bit owr dispwosed to tweyne, To ruminate on aul lang seyne. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words 223 Twine, to cry. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Twine, to whine discontentedly. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 107/1 Twine, tweyn, to whine; complain. ‘She tweyns an' twists on, peer āal body!’ 1963 H. Orton & W. J. Halliday Surv. Eng. Dial. I. ii. 628 When a baby wakes up and starts making loud, shrill noises, you say the baby is..[Durham] twining on. 2000 J. Tulloch Season Ticket vii. 135 Then what? Say it, bugger lugs. Ye've been twining aboot it all bloody day. 2004 Re: was Bree - Brown Nosers in uk.rec.equestrian (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Jan. The ‘is my horse too fat’ thread went on and on ad nauseum [sic], with Petra twining on about how fat her horse was. 2016 @Muzzer_Daftbat 19 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Sorry—I don't mean to moan at you. I've twined about it enough over the years. 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