To become curved.
To stoop.
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
To cause to change direction.
To change direction.
To force to submit.
To submit.
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
To apply to a task or purpose.
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
To be inclined; to direct itself.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
To swing the body when rowing.
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
A curve.
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
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 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).
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 type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
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.