I. noun
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Inside the chicken run - mesh bed bases tied with baling twine - the hens nested in a fridge.
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No handy planks of wood, no convenient lengths of baler twine kindly left behind by a farmer.
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She cut through the tight bonds of twine , the shiny brown wrappings, with Léonie's penknife.
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Stones and shells, slung on twine , rattled.
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Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter.
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The parcel was substantial, tightly wrapped in brown paper, crisscrossed by waxed brown twine with many knots.
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This lamb's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down.
II. verb
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A moment later her arms were twining round his neck as his lips brushed hers as soft as gossamer.
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And honeysuckle twining up the birch.
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If they would only leave us alone, we would twine together so tightly that nothing could separate us.
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My stories have begun to twine into his if only because I had my war to fight, too.
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Mythology and psychology also slide together, twine and part, joust and join again.