Twining

Full definition of twining

Noun

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. (British, uncountable, regional, West Cumbria) complaining or grumbling
• 2009 , November 23 , agency. , Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation , Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining dialect for moaning. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.

Verb

1. twining

   (past of twine)