c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XXIII. 106. Well-twisted cords.
1616. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iii. 81. Well-twisted threds.
a. 1687. Waller, Maid’s Trag. altered (1690), 42. Like a well twisted Cable, holding fast The anchor’d Vessel in the lowdest Blast.
