The harvester was improved by Gorham’s twine binder in 1874, and in the same year a machine for making barbed wire was produced.
Efforts were therefore made to introduce twine instead.
The mechanism passed the twine around the gavel of grain, formed a loop in the two ends, and tied a simple overhand knot in much the same way that the hand ties this knot.
Gorham improved the mechanism and built a successful twine binder.
But twine cannot be fastened by mere twisting; it has to be tied and a mechanical means of tying a knot was far from an easy problem to solve.
Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between, He twirls, with the twister, the two in a twine; Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine, He twisteth the twine he had twined in twain.
To the end of the twine, next the hand, is to be tied a silk ribbon; and where the silk and twine join, a key may be fastened.
For the Stars, Gold Tatting Twine or a skein of Crochet Silk, Tatting Pin No.
With the gold silk or twine make 20 Octagon Stars as page 4.
For the Stars, Gold Twine or a skein of Crochet Silk, Tatting Pin No.
Andalusian Wool or Netting Silk; and Gold Twine or Tatting Silk No.
The Gold Tatting Twine can be obtained in two qualities; the least expensive should be used for Doyleys and Antimacassars, but for Church Needlework, or Collars and Sleeves, the better make is most suited.
For a Doyley 7 inches square, use Single Berlin Wool and Gold Twine or Gold-Colored Crochet Silk; Penelope Needle No.
A bit of twine fastens him to his convict's stake.
In the manufacture of these the substances were reduced to the form of slender filaments, shreds, rods, splints, yarn, twine and sennit or braid.
In the earlier forms lead or iron shot were packed in wood casks or in canvas bags tied up with twine like the later quilted shot.
If this is not easily procured, any stout twine will answer.
When the local merchant who had been handling this necessity learned of the plan he raised his voice, thus: "If you fellows are going to do that then I go out of binder twine this season.
Or, take the case of the Grain Growers at Virden, Manitoba, who proposed to bring into the district a large shipment of binder twine to supply their members.
Then with the other end of the twine lay a loop back on the end of the rope and continue winding the twine upon this second end until all is taken up.
Hold it to the rope with the thumb of your left hand while you wind the standing part around it and the rope until the end of the twine has been covered.
Lay the end of a piece of twine along the end of the rope.
Appleby, who, in 1878, had perfected a twine binder attachment.
The first process here is that of the ensign lacing machine, which puts a strong twine through the eyelets and ties it in an accurate manner.
Fitler in Philadelphia, one of the three twine makers in the United States, and after a good deal of persuasion induced him to take an order for a single-strand binder twine.
Let us twine like amorous trees, 15 And like rivers melt in one.
I've fished enough to know that a hot sun on a wet, heaped-up net will cause the twine to heat and rot quickly.
Fine as the twine is, they see the meshes and back off.
They had to pull with all their might to drag in the ladened net, and as they pulled, they feared each minute that the fine twine would give way under the tremendous pressure.
They are fierce to take out of a net, they will tangle up dozens of meshes on those horns and the fine twine is hard to work off the saw edges.
This fish pole arrangement of twine and stick is handed to the first man on each team.
Squash Race One crook-neck summer squash, a short stick, a piece of twine and a strawberry basket are needed for each team in this race.
To reach the inhabited rooms it was necessary to make many windings, to twine up a short spiral stair that led from the outer court, and to traverse two sides of the quadrangle.
Name it," commanded Roger, busy with knife and pastepot making one of the twine and tag boxes that he had described.
As he talked he manufactured a twine box, popping into it not only the red and green balls about which he had been talking, but, on the other side of a slip of pasteboard which he put in for a partition, a ball of pink and a ball of blue.
You certainly put in a good week's work with the paste pot," declared Roger admiringly as he filled the last one with sugar cookies and tied it with green and red twine to harmonize with its covering of holly paper.
If you didn't care whether it was ever used again you could put in the ball of twine with its end sticking through and then paste a band of paper around the joining of the top and the box.
O bring a wreath of summer flow'rs, And twine it lightly round her brow; How calmly pass these holy hours-- Mysterious death is with her now.
Mournfully, tearfully, twine we a wreath, To the memory of one who sleeps with the dead; Calmly she slumbers the cold sod beneath, While the wind chants a requiem over her bed.
She had attached a single piece oftwine to the oak branch, and this she could not leave behind; twine was too useful and too hard to get.
To see twine in your dream, warns you that your business is assuming complications which will be hard to overcome.
The form and dimensions of the batteries, either of barbettes or embrasures, will be equally determined by poles or pickets placed at all their angles, and united together by twine in the manner that will be subsequently explained.
She left the door, and handed him the twine which he had put on the table.
He hadn't seen his nephew come into the room, with a ball of stout twine in his hands.
I love and praise, Because around my heart and brain you twine A misty winding-sheet and a nebulous shrine.
Let his own Genius to our festal haste, While fresh-blown flowers his heavenly tresses twine And balm-anointed brows; so let him taste Our offered loaf and sweet, unstinted wine!
Like that soft blush on face of virgin fair Led to her husband; or as maidens twine Lilies in amaranth; or Autumn's air Tinges the apples fine.
A multitude of lianas and epiphytous plants twine round the trunks and branches of the trees, and frequently choke up their failing life.
Their hair grows in separate plaits, which twineone in another, and form, when of some length, a voluminous and characteristic coiffure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
