entwist

American  

[en-twist] / ɛnˈtwɪst /

verb (used with object)

1. to twist together or about.

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Etymology

Origin of entwist

First recorded in 1580–90; en- ¹ + twist

Example Sentences

So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist.

From A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

I shall be blind before I am sensible of the decay of my sight, with such kindly artifice do the Fatal Sisters entwist our lives.

From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Pater, Walter

So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist; the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

So doth the Woodbine the sweet Honeysuckle Gently entwist; the Female Ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the Elm.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson