thrown and twisted

1. 1.

   twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread

   “thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn”

   Synonymsthrown

   Similartangled

   archaism

Questions about thrown and twisted

What does thrown and twisted mean?

thrown and twisted means "twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread".

What is another word for thrown and twisted?

Close synonyms include thrown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thrown and twisted a common word?

thrown and twisted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.