TWINE


Meaning of TWINE in English

I. noun

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Inside the chicken run - mesh bed bases tied with baling twine - the hens nested in a fridge.

No handy planks of wood, no convenient lengths of baler twine kindly left behind by a farmer.

She cut through the tight bonds of twine , the shiny brown wrappings, with Léonie's penknife.

Stones and shells, slung on twine , rattled.

Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter.

The parcel was substantial, tightly wrapped in brown paper, crisscrossed by waxed brown twine with many knots.

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.

And honeysuckle twining up the birch.

If they would only leave us alone, we would twine together so tightly that nothing could separate us.

My stories have begun to twine into his if only because I had my war to fight, too.

Mythology and psychology also slide together, twine and part, joust and join again.

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