Charleston vs twist

Charleston

noun
  • A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. 

name
  • A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers. 

  • A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina. 

  • A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler. 

  • An area of Dundee, Scotland. 

  • A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County. 

  • A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler. 

  • A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster. 

  • A city in Tennessee. 

  • A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler. 

  • The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler. 

  • A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England. 

  • A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand. 

  • A town in South Australia. 

  • A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County. 

  • A community in Nova Scotia, Canada. 

  • A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation. 

  • A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville). 

twist

noun
  • A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details. 

  • A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. 

  • A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. 

  • A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. 

  • A twisting force. 

  • The form given in twisting. 

  • An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. 

  • A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape. 

  • The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. 

  • A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. 

  • The degree of stress or strain when twisted. 

  • Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. 

  • A small roll of tobacco. 

  • A sprain, especially to the ankle. 

  • A girl, a woman. 

  • A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. 

  • A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. 

  • A rotation of the body when diving. 

verb
  • To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. 

  • To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. 

  • To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. 

  • In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. 

  • To turn a knob etc. 

  • To join together by twining one part around another. 

  • To wind into; to insinuate. 

  • To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). 

  • To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. 

  • To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. 

  • To cause to rotate. 

  • To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. 

  • To coax. 

  • To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). 

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