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1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) xxi. 343 Which is so much of the strength of the Line lost for want of first watering it, and then re-twisting it.

1808 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 13 9 The thread will be untwisted, drawn out and re-twisted as it passes.

1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 66 The hairs..must be retwisted.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1115 The throwster re-winds and re-twists it upon the spinning mill.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 286 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A second machine to retwist together two threads already twisted separately, thus producing organzine.

1910 G. W. James Grand Canyon xvii. 135 This bayeta or baize was unravelled and the Indian woman often retwisted the warp to make it firmer.

1963 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 53 25/2 Yarns are always plied in pairs, and retwisted when a stronger cord is needed.

1994 J. Deveraux Invitation 190 I smiled hello and thought about running back to the plane, but the pilot had already retwisted its rubber band and it was chugging down the runway.

2007 N. Englander Ministry of Special Cases xlii. 292 He twisted and retwisted the tip of his beard.

1792 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis (rev. ed.) iii. 238 He will twist and re-twist, and bedamn and bepraise.

1831 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 335/2 And thus the story goes on—twisting and re-twisting—coiling and wreathing—till we find ourselves at the close of the third volume.

1934 W. Burnett Maker of Signs i. 15 The road retwisting and retwining through the hilly land.

1997 H. Hargrave From Fiber to Fabric iii. x. 84/2 Unbalanced yarns have enough twist that the yarn will untwist and retwist in the opposite direction.

2007 P. Draovitch & R. Simpson Compl. Conditioning for Golf vi. 103 Untwist completely and then continue retwisting in the opposite direction until you face opposite the wall or door attachment.

1832 W. O. Pughe Dict. Welsh Lang. (ed. 2) I. 400/1 Dattroiad,..a retwisting.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 248 The cost of re-winding and re-twisting..[is] about 5s.

1929 Pop. Mech. June 1035/1 If the cooler is suspended by two strands of reasonably long rope which are twisted a number of turns, it will revolve back and forth for quite a while by the untwisting and retwisting of the strands.

1993 Internat. Rev. Cytol. 147 115 Reversals are abrupt (i.e., completed in less than 10 msec including the untwisting of the filament followed by retwisting in the opposite direction).

2005 K. R. Reel Best Test Prepar. for AP Environmental Sci. viii. 186 One portion of the solution may lie with the ‘re-twisting’ of the Kissimmee River, which was turned into a straight channel several years ago to promote navigation.