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countable and uncountable, plural twinings
(countable) A layout or motion that twines. quotations examples
In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.
1907, Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson, Lectures on plant physiology
(Britain, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining or grumbling quotations examples
Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.
2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian
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That twines. quotations examples
White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
present participle and gerund of twine examples