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Twist together
Answer for the clue "Twist together ", 6 letters:
enlace
Alternative clues for the word enlace
Word definitions for enlace in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enlace \En*lace"\, v. t. To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. --P. Fletcher.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "connect, involve, entangle," from Old French enlacer "trap, ensnare, capture," from Late Latin *inlaciare , from in- (see in- (2)) + *lacius , from Latin laqueus "noose" (see lace (n.)). Related: Enlaced ; enlacing .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. spin or twist together so as to form a cord; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope" [syn: intertwine , twine , entwine , interlace , lace ] [ant: untwine ]
Usage examples of enlace.
For a moment Onofrio sat with hands enlaced, twisting them, as if struggling with some pious conception.
He glimpsed around the lights a mass of vague, glimmering structures that were oddly enlaced by the surrounding forest.
They rode out of the court and on out through the dark silent windings of forest that enlaced Anshan.
After that, they walked once more enlaced, avoiding with what perfect care any allusion to the sudden tragedy, giving themselves up to the bewildering ecstasy that had started throbbing in their blood with that kiss, longing only not to spoil it.
This couple so stealthily enlaced, the gleam of their furtively turned eyes, the whispering of their lips, that stony niche below the twittering sparrows, so cunningly sought out--it was the world he had abjured!
Love was to him with anguish fast enlaced, And Beauty where she walked blood-shot the dews.
They stood arms enlaced, half-leaning on a bulkhead, while the dolphin pennant on the roof wheeled across the star map and Joanna Taubman dropped in a long turn to come in on the roof of Fairfield Farm.
He left the path along the water and stole under the trees, along the deep shadow of little plantations, where the boughs of chestnut trees hung their great leaves low, and there was blacker refuge, shaping his course in circles which had for their object a stealthy inspection of chairs side by side, against tree-trunks, of enlaced lovers, who stirred at his approach.
They could do nothing but press close to each other, their hands enlaced, their lips meeting now and then.
The great trees enlaced with one another over my head, and the sunshine stole through in patches as bright as diamonds, and hardly bigger.
Torchlight spilled from open doors and windows to illuminate vaguely its streets and enlacing forest-ways.
Now, for the first time since he was a young, untrained lad, his desire rose unbidden, a deceitful serpent twining about him, enlacing him within its languorous coils.
In all the ages of her imprisonment she had never yet succeeded in warming the chill out of the enlacing metal chains that sagged endlessly on top of her.
It depicted a row of crouching figures, naked human forms all enlaced about with thorn-vines and flowers no redder than the trickles of their blood.