overtwist
nounEtymology From over- + twist.
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Excessive twist.
- With any great amount of overtwist, the yarn just kinks up and will not go through the orifice.1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 96:
overtwist
verbEtymology From over- + twist.
1
To twist excessively.