twineth

Verb

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)

1. (transitive) To weave together.

   Synonyms:

   betwine, entwine, intertwine, braid, entwist, interlace, interthread, intertwist, interweave, lace

2. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
   • Let me twine
     Mine arms about that body […]c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
   • “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,”
     The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto III
4. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
   • Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck
5. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
   • As rivers, though they bend and twine,
     Still to the sea their course incline:1713, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa
6. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
   • Many plants twine.

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