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

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