intervolve

Oct. 25th, 2012 07:55 am
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intervolve (in-tuhr-VOLV) - v., to involve within one another, to wind or twist together.


Can be transitive or in-. I think ropemaking would count, given the counter-twisting going on there. Coined in the 1660s from Latin roots inter- in the send of mutually/together + volvere, to roll.

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