Usually means: String used for binding, crafting.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. twine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. twine: Merriam-Webster
  3. twine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. twine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. twine: Collins English Dictionary
  6. twine: Vocabulary.com
  7. Twine, twine: Wordnik
  8. twine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Twine, twine: Wiktionary
  10. twine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. twine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. twine: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. twine: Dictionary.com
  14. twine (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. twine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Twine (band), Twine (disambiguation), Twine (marketplace), Twine (software), Twine (website), Twine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Twine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. twine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. twine: Rhymezone
  20. twine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. twine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. twine: FreeDictionary.org
  23. twine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. twine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twine: Legal dictionary

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  1. twine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TWINE: Acronym Finder
  3. twine: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. twine, twine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. twine: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Twine: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A twist; a convolution.
noun:  A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
noun:  The act of twining or winding round.
noun:  Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
verb:  (transitive) To weave together.
verb:  (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
verb:  (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
verb:  (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
verb:  (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
verb:  (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
verb:  (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
verb:  (obsolete) To change the direction of.
verb:  (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Alternative form of twin (“to separate”) [(transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.]

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