twining

English

Noun

twining (countable and uncountable; plural twinings)

1. (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.

2. (UK, uncountable, regional, West Cumbrian) complaining or grumbling
   • 2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, 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.

Verb

twining

1. simple past tense and past participle of twine

See also

• twinning