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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
twine/twʌɪn/

▶noun strong thread or string consisting of strands of hemp or cotton twisted together. ▶verb wind round something.

– derivatives
twiner noun.

– origin OE twīn ‘thread, linen’, from the Gmc base of twi- ‘two’ (with ref. to the number of strands).

'twine' also found in these Oxford entries:

henequen - intertwine - twist - whip - wind - wine

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