A twist; a convolution.
Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:
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.
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 act of twining or winding round.
The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm
To weave together.
To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]
A surname.
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-Indo-European *dwisnós ...
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Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).