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at which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as a bore of a cannon, etc.

A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc. [South Africa] Simmonds.

twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2. Roving frame, Roving machine, a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.

o force; to bring by violent pressure. Howell. -- To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting.

ange of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.

A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

ry; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

und, with respect to each other, on a longitudinal pin or axis, as in a chain, to prevent twisting.

rd, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.

set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise. Throstle cock, the missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

re twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting, first into singles, two or more of which are twisted together making dumb singles, and several of these twisted together to make thrown singles.

itudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.

A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.

The act of twining or winding round. J. Philips. Twine reeler, a kind of machine for twisting twine; a kind of mule, or spinning machine.

Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.

The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending. Not the least turn or twist in the fibers of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture. Addison.

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. Wallis.