A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string
If you twine one thing around another, or if one thing twines around another, the first thing is twisted or wound around the second. He had twined his chubby arms around Vincent's neck These strands of molecules twine around each other to form cable-like structures. to wind or twist around something else, or to make something do this twine sth round/around sth