twining

Etymology

noun

1. (countable) A 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. (Britain, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining 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. November 23, 2009, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian

adj

1. That twines.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of twine