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Word entry · 5 letters

twine

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"String"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /twaɪn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eintwStarts with TEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. form into a spiral shape

Word origin

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-Germanic *twiznaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).

Used in a sentence

  • Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:
  • The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]
  • The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm

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