Synonyms:
string, twine
Meaning: a lightweight cord
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
Meaning: spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"
Usage examples
Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net and had wound the twine into a ball.
Without protest, he allowed her to twine about his brow this spurious bay of Spanish scholarship.
It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction.
As usual, though always scrupulously clean, he wore his poor clothes, no stockings, and his wristbands tied together with twine.
The fingers of little girls, it has always appeared to me, are the fittest to twine flower wreaths; but boys could do it, in those days, rather better than they can now.
The front of the knife should contain a long, narrow pen-blade of soft steel; a cobbler's awl, slightly bent; and a packing-needle with a large eye, to push thongs and twine through holes in leather.
In the meantime I worked up the twine into a net-work of sufficient dimensions; rigged it with a hoop and the necessary cords; bought a quadrant, a compass, a spy-glass, a common barometer with some important modifications, and two astronomical instruments not so generally known.
I recollect also that, after toiling and watching and creeping about for the greater part of a day, with scarcely any success in spite of all our admirable apparatus, a lubberly country urchin came down from the hills with a rod made from a branch of a tree, a few yards of twine, and, as Heaven shall help me!
With the means thus accruing I proceeded to procure at intervals, cambric muslin, very fine, in pieces of twelve yards each; twine; a lot of the varnish of caoutchouc; a large and deep basket of wicker-work, made to order; and several other articles necessary in the construction and equipment of a balloon of extraordinary dimensions.