twine

A twist; a convolution.

Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:

A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]

The act of twining or winding round.

The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm

Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.

1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music. The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …

To weave together.

To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]

She was twining her fingers together.

To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

“Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”

To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.

Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.

To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.

As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline:

Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).