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▪ I. twisting, vbl. n.|ˈtwɪstɪŋ|
[f. twist v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb twist.
†1. Pruning, clipping. (In quot. attrib.) rare.
1535Coverdale Song Sol. ii. 12 The floures are come vp in the felde, the twystinge tyme is come [Vulg. Tempus putationis advenit].
2. The spinning of thread, etc.; twining, wreathing, plaiting; also with in (in quot. 1812 fig. the swearing in of a Luddite), and attrib. In quot. a 1673 app. concr.
1552Huloet, Twystyng wande, as wyker or osyer, uimen, inis, uimineus, a, um, of twystyng roddes. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. 38 b, Flaxe and Hempe..serueth for webbes of Linnen, and twysting of Cordes. 1599in Archæologia LXIV. 382 For mending the twisting wheele. 1649Milton Eikon. vi. Wks. 1851 III. 386 They..have to our Saviours crown of thorns no right at all. Thornes they may find anow of thir own gathering, and thir own twisting. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 247 Making several vegetable or animal substances into Thred. Twisting,..Spinning. a1673T. Horton Serm. xxii. (1679) 160/1 He can gather a Rod of these boughes, and make a scourge of these twistings. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xxi. (Roxb.) 253/2 A Twisting wheele... This is an engine wherewith 2, 3 or more silk thrids are twisted, or turned all together into one entire double thrid. 1812Chron. in Ann. Reg. 86/2 Thirty-eight were committed to Lancaster gaol, to take their trials for having administered the abominable and unlawful oath, known by the term of twisting-in. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 421 The motions of both machines, excepting those of that set of twisting-spindles facing the opposite company, are then struck into geer. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. vi. 188 There does not seem to be any definite distinction among silk-throwsters, between spinning, twisting, and throwing. 1878A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving xxx. 312 It is not to be wondered at that attempts should be made to perform twisting-in by mechanical means.
3. Wringing, screwing; spiral turning; contortion, distortion; fig. perversion or wresting of sense; slang, a scolding; a trouncing.
1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building 29 The Angles..in the Figure, do represent the Twisting of each Piece. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. Introd. 16 The Twistings and Movements, and different Postures of the Body. 1776Da Costa Elem. Conchol. vii. 148 The Vermiculi in general are of no determinate or fixed regular shape, from their windings and twistings. 1808Lady S. Lyttelton Corr. (1913) 14 A few pretty distortions of the features or graceful twistings of the body. 1818–20E. Thompson tr. Cullen's Nosol. Method. (ed. 3) 224 Pain in the belly with a sense of twisting. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xix. (1842) 523 This should be done without any twisting or distortion of the glass. 1833Marryat P. Simple xvi, I say, Bill, if them were we, what a precious twisting we should get to-morrow at six bells! 1890Daily News 1 Dec. 6/2 Telling me that it [the letter] is being twisted this way and that, and asking me to put a stop to the twisting process.
4. Tortuous course; intricate winding; turning this way and that; fig. evasion, prevarication; also turning aside, or about; rotation.
1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 76 To follow..all the twistings and crossings, and entanglements in those intricate subjects that have hitherto perplexed the learned world. 1856F. Perthes Mem. II. vi. 94 What toil and trouble, what twisting and turning this undertaking has cost me. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. iv. 154 A second regards sin as a twisting or perversion of the will from the right way. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 188 A useful arrangement is..that all the parts..by a single twisting of the axis..assume those positions which are most favourable for the functions of the leaves... In the terminal buds of such shoots this twisting is no longer necessary. 1886Athenæum 10 July 39/1 The twistings and eddyings of the political current.
5. Insurance. (See quots.) Cf. twister n. 8. orig. U.S.
1906Even. Post (N.Y.) 20 Jan. (Financial Section) 7/1 By ‘twisting’ is meant the persuading of policyholders in one company to transfer their insurance to another. 1962L. E. Davids Dict. Insurance 205/2 Twisting, practice of inducing any policyholder to lapse or cancel a policy for the purpose of replacing such policy with another to the detriment of the policyholder. The practice is considered to be unethical as well as illegal. 1979Telegraph (Brisbane) 24 Sept. 24/2 In simple terms twisting works like this. A life insurance agent sells you a policy when he is working for company X... Three years later he switches allegiance to company Y. To make life easier he retraces his steps..to tell you that the policy from company X is outdated.
▪ II. ˈtwisting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That twists, in various senses of the verb; turning; wringing or wrenching; curving, winding, crooked; † interlacing (obs.); involved.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋1 [To] hinder the Press from working into a twisting Position. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 156 Borders that are twisting and circular. 1761Young Resignation i. xxx, The twisting strings Of ardent hearts combin'd. 1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages vii. 74 The twisting form of the groin is disagreeable to the eye. 1872H. W. Beecher Lect. Preaching ix. 178 Some long sentences are good, but not twisting ones. 1882Daily Tel. 4 May, The longitudinal or twisting strain, such..as a ship receives when she is struck at the same moment by a heavy sea on the starboard quarter and a heavy sea on the port bow. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 676 They [pains] may be aching, burning, twisting or shooting in character. 1902F. T. Bidlake in Cycl. Tour. Cl. Gaz. Aug. 360/1 Any further brake pressure put on by the lever will remain locked on by the twisting handle.
Hence ˈtwistingly adv., in a twisting manner.
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