twine
noun/twaɪn/
/twaɪn/
[uncountable]- strong string that has two or more strands (= single thin pieces of string) twisted togetherWord OriginOld English twīn ‘thread, linen’, from the Germanic base of twi- ‘two’; related to Dutch twijn.
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