intransitive. To turn round or over; to turn from side to side; to twist. Obsolete.

intransitive. To move agitatedly or convulsively; to writhe, twist. Also: to turn round; to curl, twine. Chiefly Scottish after Middle English.

(a) transitive to twist or wrench apart; (b) intransitive, to twist or writhe about.

intransitive. To turn this way and that; to writhe, wriggle. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To perform or undergo a quick or forcible turning or twisting motion; to turn or writhe (about or aside). Also figurative. Obsolete.

intransitive. More generally: (of a person or animal) to move in a sinuous manner; to change posture by twisting; to twist about.

intransitive. To writhe; to turn away.

To twist or writhe about; to wriggle, move sinuously; to work backwards and forwards.

To twist.

To twist the body in struggling or striving; to struggle with or strive against something; to contend, labour, or endeavour earnestly.

intransitive. To struggle or move about writhingly.

intransitive. To twist or turn the body about with short writhing movements; to move sinuously; to… Of persons (or animals): To twist, turn, or move…

= rinse, v.

To twist about, writhe. Obsolete.

intransitive. To twist, twine, wriggle, writhe.

To contort the body; to writhe, wriggle, squirm. Now dialect.

intransitive. To twine, coil, curl. rare.

intransitive. To spring back; to rebound, recoil; (also) to twist back. Obsolete.