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

  • intransitive verb To untwist the strands of (a rope).
  • intransitive verb To untwist.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nautical, to untwist, as the strands of a rope.

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

  • transitive verb (Naut.) To untwist.

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

  • verb To untwist.

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