Word Meanings - TWISTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Twist. Chaucer.

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,
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.
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
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.