Word Meanings - TWISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, makes a twist of the twine. Wallis.

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  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• OCCUPATION
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• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• WEAVER
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• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
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• PERSONATOR
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• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
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  One who girds; a satirist.
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  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
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  Twisted; distorted; awry. Halliwell.
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  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
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  To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
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• 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.
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