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Twister

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

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Cyclone 76% connected

A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward…

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Waterspout 76% connected

A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

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Wrestle 74% connected

To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wrestle 74% connected

To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

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Cruller 92% connected

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tornado 92% connected

A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with s…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Avalanche noun · 78% connection

a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain

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Crack noun · 78% connection

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

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Crack cocaine noun · 78% connection

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

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Drought noun · 78% connection

a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

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Drouth noun · 78% connection

a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

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Earthquake noun · 78% connection

shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity

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Eructation noun · 78% connection

(of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)

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Eruption noun · 78% connection

(of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)

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Estrus noun · 78% connection

applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

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Extravasation noun · 78% connection

(of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)

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Flood noun · 78% connection

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the f…

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Flood tide noun · 78% connection

the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the f…

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Heat noun · 78% connection

applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

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Heat wave noun · 78% connection

a wave of unusually hot weather

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Hurricane noun · 78% connection

a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)

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Landslide noun · 78% connection

a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

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Landslip noun · 78% connection

a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

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Oestrus noun · 78% connection

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Beam noun · 78% connection

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rol…

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Bier noun · 78% connection

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

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Card noun · 78% connection

A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

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Chain noun · 78% connection

The warp threads of a web.

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Contort verb · 78% connection

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

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Cram noun · 78% connection

A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

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Distort verb · 78% connection

To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

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Doublethreaded adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

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Floating noun · 78% connection

Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

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Fray verb · 78% connection

To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross…

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Fringe noun · 78% connection

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven…

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Griff noun · 78% connection

An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

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