Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. of
twist .
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Examples
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A fayre quilte of crymson sattin, vj breadths, iij yardes 3 quarters naile deepe, all lozenged over with silver twiste, in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves, fringed rounde aboute with
Kenilworth 2004
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A carpett for a cupboarde of crymson sattin, embrothered with a border of goulde twiste, about iij parts of it fringed with silk and goulde, lyned with bridges [that is, Bruges.] sattin, in length ij yards, and ij bredths of sattin.
Kenilworth 2004
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A crymson sattin counterpointe, quilted and embr. with a golde twiste, and lyned with redd sarsenet, being in length iij yards good, and in breadth iij scant.
Kenilworth 2004
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They flapped the black pennon and twiste [d] the sting
Diplomatic Text 1997
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They flapped the black pennon and twiste [d] the sting
Clear Reading Text 1997
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They flapped the black pennon and twiste [d] the sting
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I've hed my share of storms an accydints, though I've ben shipwrecked onst or twiste, yet never has it ben my lot to experience any loss of human life.
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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Dey's been a lake, en suthin's happened, en de lake's dead, en we's seen its ghos '; we's seen it twiste, en dat's proof.
Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894
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Dey's BEEN a lake, en suthin's happened, en de lake's dead, en we's seen its ghos '; we's seen it twiste, en dat's proof.
Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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Commonlye their yonge daugters of 7. or 8. yeares olde do waigt vpon them wearinge abowt them a girdle of skinne, which hangeth downe behinde, and is drawne vnder neath betwene their twiste, and bownde aboue their nauel with mose of trees betwene that and thier skinnes to couer their priuiliers withall.
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