twine
suomi-englanti sanakirjatwine englannista suomeksi
nyöri, naru
punoa
kiertää
kietoa
twine englanniksi
A twist; a convolution.
(RQ:Milton Poems)
A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
(quote-book)
The act of twining or winding round.
(RQ:Philips Cyder)
Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
1965, Wilson Pickett, ''Don't Fight It'' (blues song), BMI Music.
- The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine ...
To weave together.
To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
{{quote-text|en|year=1931|author=Dashiell Hammett|title=The Glass Key|url=https://archive.org/details/glasskey00dash|chapter=10|page=199|publisher=Vintage|year_published=1972|location=New York
To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
(RQ:Pope Rape of the Lock)”
To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
{{quote-text|en|year=1941|author=Emily Carr|title=Klee Wyck|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131.txt|chapter=1
To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
{{quote-text|en|year=1713|author=Jonathan Swift|title=Cadenus and Vanessa|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/13621/pg13621-images.html
To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
(ux)
To turn round; to revolve.
{{quote-text|en|year=1598|author=George Chapman|title=Hero and Leander
To change the direction of.
{{quote-text|en|year=1600|author=Torquato Tasso|title=Jerusalem Delivered|year_published=1581|translator=Edward Fairfax|section=Book 20, Stanza 38|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/392/pg392-images.html
To mingle; to mix.
{{quote-text|en|year=1646|author=Richard Crashaw|title=M. Crashaw’s Answer for Hope|lines=29–30|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38549/38549-h/38549-h.htm
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