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Twire
Definitions
- 1 A sly glance; a leer.
- 2 A twisted filament; a thread.
"they put the cocons in hot water, and so stirring them about with a kind of rod, the ends of the silk twires of the cocons stick to it"
- 3 A pipe through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge; a tuyere. obsolete
- 1 To glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry. intransitive
"I saw the wench that twired and twinkled at thee."
- 2 To twist; twirl. transitive
- 3 To twinkle; sparkle; wink. intransitive
"When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even."
Etymology
From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.
From Middle English twiren (“to peep out, pry about, twinkle, glance, gleam”), cognate with Middle High German zwieren (“to spy”), Bavarian zwiren, zwieren (“to spy, glance”). Perhaps related to Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”). More at twinkle.
From Middle English *twir, *twirn, twern, from Old English *twirn, *tweorn (“twine, thread”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwo- (“two”). Doublet of twine.
Perhaps from a dialectal form of *twere, from Middle English *tweren, from Old English þweran (“to stir”) (found in compound āþweran (“to agitate, stir”)), from Proto-Germanic *þweraną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *twer- (“to turn, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Bavarian zweren (“to stir”). Compare twirk, twirl.
Variant of tuyere.
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