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Twister   Listen
noun
Twister  n.  
1.
One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
2.
The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. "He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine."
3.
(Carp.) A girder.
4.
(Man.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.





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"Twister" Quotes from Famous Books



... was Captain Hook (of whom ye have heard—so called from his terrible cold steel twister, His own right hand having gone to a shark with a taste for skippers on pirate-trips), There was Silver himself, with his cruel crutch, and the blind man Pew, with a phiz like a blister, Gouged and white ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes


Words linked to "Twister" :   tongue twister, tornado, cruller, cyclone, waterspout, supertwister, twist


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