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Scroggy :: Scroggy (a.) Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted..

Fleak :: Fleak (n.) A flake; a thread or twist.

Crankle :: Crankle (n.) A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

Twist :: Twist (n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling..

Water Tu Twist :: Water tu twist () Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame..

Leaper :: Leaper (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread..

Raveling :: Raveling (n.) The act of untwisting or of disentangling.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

Torsional :: Torsional (a.) Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force..

Wreathen :: Wreathen (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath.

Twisting :: Twisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twis.

Nettles :: Nettles (n. pl.) The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

Wreathe :: Wreathe (n.) To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached..

Twistical :: Twistical (a.) Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest..

Wattle :: Wattle (v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches..

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

Grommet :: Grommet (n.) A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet..

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