Definition of twist

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Twist (v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton..

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Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material..
Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Single :: Single (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness..
Plica :: Plica (v.) A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait..
Crispated :: Crispated (a.) Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
Mask Shell :: Mask shell () Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture..
Ravel :: Ravel (v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
Fagend :: Fagend (n.) An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect..
Pigtail :: Pigtail (n.) A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Tweedle :: Tweedle (v. t.) To twist.
Roving :: Roving (n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine..
Reim :: Reim (n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc..
Wry :: Wry (superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth..
Twisted :: Twisted (a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted..
Intervolve :: Intervolve (v. t.) To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.
Twist :: Twist (n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts..
Tharms :: Tharms (n. pl.) Twisted guts.
Strand :: Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed..
Cruller :: Cruller (n.) A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat..
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