Twister: Definition and part of speech

Twister

  1. n. The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
  2. n. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
  3. n. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
  4. n. A girder.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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