Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope.
2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part
relatively to another about an axis passing through both;
to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture
of parts. ``Longing to twist bays with that ivy.''
--Waller.
There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of
flame. --T. Burnet.
5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible
substance, round another; to form by convolution, or
winding separate things round each other; as, to twist
yarn or thread. --Shak.
7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
to wreathe; to make up.
Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist
so fine a story? --Shak.
8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
twist wool or cotton.
{Twisting pair}. (Kinematics) See under {Pair}, n., 7.