ppl. a. [f. TWINE v.1 + -ED1.] That has been twined, in various senses of the verb; twisted, plaited, curled, coiled, wreathed, etc.

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c. 1275.  [see TWINE v.1 1].

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1510.  Stanbridge, Vocabula (W. de W.), C ij. Filum contortum, twyned threde.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VII. vii. 88. The round top of tre, Hit with the twynit quhyp, dois quherle.

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1535.  Coverdale, Judg. xvi. 9. He brake the roapes in sunder, euen as a twyned threde breaketh, whan it hath catched the heate of the fyre.

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1539.  Bible (Great), Exod. xxvi. 36. An hangynge … of yelow sylke, purple, scarlet, & white twined silk.

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1565.  Jewel, Repl. Harding (1611), 66. The substance of all that he hath alleged hitherto, hangeth only by a twined threed.

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1568.  Satir. Poems Reform., xlviii. 35. Off all thir thre hewis I haif left clewis,… Tuynit and small.

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1576.  Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 310. One hanges himselfe … with a twyned haulter.

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1611.  Cotgr., Espée Romaine, certaine twined, and retorted haires on a horse;… by some called, a feather.

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1668.  Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., I. xi. 25. [It] spreds it self upon the Colon like a twined worm.

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1799.  Hull Advertiser, 23 Feb., 3/2. 500 millfuls of twined yarn.

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1851.  Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., II. 509. Priestcraft burns out, the twined linen blazes.

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1900.  Crockett, Black Douglas, 1. The twined May-pole had not yet been taken down.

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