Noun

(en noun)

One who twists.

# One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.

* Wallis

He, twirling his twister , makes a twist of the twine.

(colloquial) A tornado.

(carpentry) A girder

(Craig)

(dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.

(British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter IX , passage=“I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”}}

The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

Noun

(en-noun)

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex'''''. The ' vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.

(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.