twister

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One that twists, as in the manufacture of rope or yarn.
• noun Sports A ball thrown or batted with a twist.
• noun Informal A tornado or cyclone.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A twisting or zigzag movement of a horse.
• noun A somersault in which the body rotates or ‘twists.’ See spotter, 5.
• noun One who or that which twists. Specifically
• noun An implement or device used for twisting yarns, threads, cords, etc.
• noun In carpentry, a girder.
• noun That which is twisted or which moves with a twist, as a ball in cricket or billiards.
• noun That which twists, writhes, or contorts.
• noun One who trims trees by lopping. Cath. Ang. A bird that flies with twisting or zigzag flight, as the snipe.
• noun In the manège, the inner part of the thigh: the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
• noun The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
• noun (Carp.) A girder.
• noun (Man.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One who twists.
• noun The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
• noun colloquial A tornado.
• noun carpentry A girder
• noun dated The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
• noun UK, colloquial A crook, a villain.
• noun The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
• noun a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground