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interwind, v.|ɪntəˈwaɪnd|
Pa. tense and pple. -wound |-ˈwaʊnd|.
[inter- 1 b.]
trans. To wind (things) into or through each other; to wind together; to wind (one thing) through the windings of another; to intertwine, intertwist. Also fig.
1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 895 Narrowing it by Piles drove down and inter-wound with Branches of Trees. 1844Mrs. Browning Brown Rosary i. xvii, Her speaking is so interwound Of the dim and the sweet. 1897Christian Herald (N.Y.) 4 Aug. 592/1 A great many of these threads are interwound.
b. intr. (for refl.)
1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career II. x. 178 Circumstances will often interwind with the moods of simply irritated men. 1879E. S. Phelps Sealed Orders, etc. 94 Uncounted sails which..pass and repass, wind and interwind.
Hence interˈwinding, interˈwound ppl. adjs.
1827Montgomery Pelican Island v. 28 Small isles, By interwinding channels linked yet sundered. 1877Fairbairn Stud. Philos. Relig. & Hist. 263 Interwound branches do not make two trunks one tree. |