twinedadj.
/twʌɪnd/ That has been twined, in various senses of the verb; twisted, plaited, curled, coiled, wreathed, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven
writhenOE
twinedc1300
locked1488
wreathena1500
plait1529
implicatec1540
context?1541
twisted1548
weaved1552
wreathed?1552
texed1572
well-woven1578
woven1590
interlaced1593
entrailed1599
entest1608
implicit1608
folden1612
inextricate?1615
intertissueda1616
complicatea1626
enwreathed1631
interwoven1642
inwoven1667
intertwineda1680
plectilea1682
well-wove1690
implicated1761
osiered1820
inwrought1824
complected1828
impleached1829
internetted1849
enlaced1851
threaded1853
interknit1885
interwrought1895
pleached1896
interweaved1898
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > disposed in or forming (a) coil(s)
twinedc1300
wounda1382
wreathenc1400
wrinkledc1403
wreathedc1425
whorlish1562
folded1570
writhen1584
upwound1590
entortilled1629
coiled1661
whirled1715
whirl-shaped1762
crinkum-crankum1766
convoluted1811
gyrated1822
rounded1845
vorticiform1849
looped1850
vorticose1870
convolute1874
gyrate1876
swirled1909
snake-spiral1922
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 7096 Nas þe þwang noht brod bote ase hit were a twined þred [c1275 Calig. a twines þræd].
1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C ij Filum contortum, twyned threde.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vii. 88 The round top of tre, Hit with the twynit quhyp, dois quherle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xvi. 9 He brake the roapes in sunder, euen as a twyned threde breaketh, whan it hath catched the heate of the fyre.
1539 Bible (Great) Exod. xxvi. 36 An hangynge..of yelow sylke, purple, scarlet, & white twined silk.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 88 The substance of al that he hath alleged hitherto, hangeth onely by a twined threade.
1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 35 Off all thir thre hewis I haif left clewis,..Tuynit and small.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Seneca in Panoplie Epist. 310 One hanges himselfe..with a twyned haulter.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Espée Romaine, certaine twined, and retorted haires on a horse;..by some called, a feather.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xi. 25 [It] spreds it self upon the Colon like a twined worm.
1799 Hull Advertiser 23 Feb. 3/2 500 millfuls of twined yarn.
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. xviii. 118 Priestcraft burns out; the twined linen blazes.
1900 S. R. Crockett Black Douglas 1 The twined May-pole had not yet been taken down.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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