Twining
['twaɪnɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twine
(a.) Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.
(a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- This was said as she stood at the glass, training her naturally waved hair into curls, by twining it round her fingers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How could I wonder, when I saw their innocent faces shrinking away, and their arms twining round her neck, instead of mine? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The Jew stopped to hear no more; but uttering a loud yell, and twining his hands in his hair, rushed from the room, and from the house. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Checker: Otis