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Organzine :: Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength..

Slub :: Slub (n.) A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing.

Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

Narwhal :: Narwhal (n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side..

Worsted :: Worsted (n.) Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery..

Contortuplicate :: Contortuplicate (a.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory..

Entwist :: Entwist (v. t.) To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.

Rawhide :: Rawhide (n.) A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted..

Pirl :: Pirl (v. t.) To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

Twire :: Twire (n.) A twisted filament; a thread.

Detortion :: Detortion (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping..

Kink :: Kink (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord..

Slub :: Slub (v. t.) To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.

Intertwistingly :: Intertwistingly (adv.) By intertwisting, or being intertwisted..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise..

Displat :: Displat (v. t.) To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.

Crewel :: Crewel (n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery..

Cotton :: Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half..

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