Word Meanings - GNARLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

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• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 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,
• TWIST
  twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
• TWISTED
  Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
• TWISTE
  imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
• KNOTTY
  1. Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope. 2. Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head. Rewe. 3. Difficult; intricate; perplexed. A knotty point to which we now proceed Pope.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
• WATER TU TWIST
  Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.
• ENTWIST
  To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.