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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support;

as, the hop is a

twining

plant

Adj.

The act of one who, or that which, twines;

(Bot.)

the act of climbing spirally.

ppr.

Twisting; winding round; uniting closely to; embracing.

In botany, ascending spirally around a branch, stem or prop.

twining ‎(countable and uncountable, plural twinings)

A twining plant

(countable) A layout or motion that twines.
- 1907, Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson, Lectures on plant physiology:
  In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.
(Britain, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining or grumbling
- 2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian:
  Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.

twining