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Word Meanings - CREWEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

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  • TWISTING
    a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
  • TWISTER
    A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
  • EMBROIDERY
    1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere
  • TWIST
    twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
  • SLACKLY
    In a slack manner. Trench.
  • WORST
    Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse. "Heard so oft in worst extremes." Milton. I have a wife, the worst that may be. Chaucer. If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been
  • TWISTED
    Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
  • WORSTED
    1. Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like. 2. Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.
  • TWISTE
    imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
  • UNTWIST
    1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
  • INTERTWIST
    To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
  • INTERTWISTINGLY
    By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
  • WATER TU TWIST
    Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
  • ENTWIST
    To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.

 

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