twire
- noun
- Archaic
:
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- She noticed that the small twires on the young sapling were delicate and needed protection from the wind.
Examples
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The gardener carefully collected the fallen twires to use them in his floral arrangements.
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While walking through the forest, he picked up a twire to use as a marker on his hiking trail.
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Jessop, in fact, maintained that water-cooled twires had been used with the cold blast and so were not original with Condie, who had merely improved them.
Academic text (2016) -
It was also brought out that changing the twires was not so great a problem because it was usually done at casting time (that is, when the smelted iron was run off), and so the blast was suspended anyway (for other reasons), and no extra time was lost because of the twire replacement.
Academic text (2016) -
David Mushet, 58, a widely known authority on iron manufacture, who had just published his book on that topic, observed that water-cooled twires had sometimes been used with the cold blast so they would not be damaged by heat from the furnace.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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1.0
A small thin branch from a tree or bush
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3.0
A small stem with leaves used to add flavor or decorate food
A fresh flexible twig that is still green and easy to bend
A new branch that grows from the main stem of a plant
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Twire comes from the simple idea of a thin branch, like the common word twig, meaning 'small branch'. So twire is a name for a very thin, bendy shoot you might find on a tree or on the ground.