Now dial. [f. TWIST v. + -ER5.]
† 1. trans. and intr. To twist, spin thread. Obs.
c. 1605. Alleg. Worsted Weavers (B. M. Add. MS. 12504, art. 64). Twistering one thridd of one coullour with another of another coullour. Ibid. To twister a thridd of one colour with a thridd of another.
1687. R. Ferrier, in Camden Misc., IX. VII. 30. Many … as they grow up, do work, some of whom twister, others net.
2. intr. To wind, meander. dial.
1872. [J. Spilling], Giles’s Trip to Lond., ii. 17. Straight on as ever yow can go in these twistering straats.
1895. E. Anglian Gloss., Twister, to twist or turn.
Hence Twistering ppl. a., winding, twisting; also † Twisterer Obs., a twister or spinner.
1725. Lond. Gaz., No. 6380/13. Charles Scot,… Twisterer.
1872. Twistering [see 2 above].
