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Definition of Retwisting
1. retwist [v] - See also: retwist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retwisting
Literary usage of Retwisting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"... which is so much of the strength of the line lost for want of first watering
it, and then retwisting it ; and this is most visible in a seven-hair line, ..."
2. Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings by David Masson (1873)
"That old gentleman and poet, as we know, had been an inveterate maker of anagrams ;
and, in twisting and retwisting Kerr of ..."
3. Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings by David Masson (1873)
"That old gentleman and poet, as we know, had been an inveterate maker of anagrams;
and, in twisting and retwisting Kerr of ..."
4. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... alone, twisting and retwisting . those long ends. He reminded one of Byron's
description of the captain of a man-of-war in "Childe Harold": — "Look on ..."
5. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1914)
"Another advantage of the cable is that any stretching can be taken up by retwisting,
which can not be done with the stretching of a single wire. ..."
6. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1921)
"Another advantage of the cable is that any stretching can be taken up by retwisting,
which cannot be done with the stretching of a single wire. ..."
7. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"Another advantage of the cable is that any stretching can be taken up by retwisting,
which cannot be done with the stretching of a single ..."
8. Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten: Or, His Ideas Concerning by Friedrich Fröbel, Josephine Jarvis (1895)
"... the cube hanging by a string attached to its surface; twisting, untwisting,
and retwisting of string; (91) play repeated with string attached to edge; ..."
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