twine
/twaɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:"
- "The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]"
- "The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm"
- "1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music. The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …"
- "Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]"
- "She was twining her fingers together."
Etymology
From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: twyn, twīn, *twiʀn, *twiznaz, *dwisnós, twinen