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All 5 letters words made out of twine

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Definitions and meaning of twine

twine

Alternative forms

• twyne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).

Noun

twine (countable and uncountable, plural twines)

1. A twist; a convolution.
2. 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.
3. The act of twining or winding round.
4. 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 [...]

Coordinate terms

• (threads or strands twisted together): sinew

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Etymology 2

From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *twīnian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”).

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To weave together.
2. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
3. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
4. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
5. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
6. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.

7. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
8. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
9. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

Derived terms

• entwine
• intertwine

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of twin (“to separate”)

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Numeral

twine

1. Alternative form of twye

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73