twining

plural twinings

1. countableA layout or motion that twines.

   In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.

   1907, Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson, Lectures on plant physiology

2. CumbriaUKregionaluncountablecomplaining or grumbling

   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.

   2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian

1. not comparableThat twines.

   White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of twine

plural Twinings

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA village in Mason Township and Turner Township, Arenac County, Michigan.
   2. countableuncountableA ghost town in Taos County, New Mexico.
   3. countableuncountableA neighbourhood in south-east Washington, D.C..