Then he said: 'Untwist your lines and let mine go, that I may pull the fish in.'
The children stood round in a circle, and the hoop was twisted up tightly and then let to untwist itself slowly.
They caught hold of him firmly and endeavored to untwist his beard from the line, but in vain; they were too tightly entangled.
To untwist, to unlay ropes; to teaze, to convert it into oakum.
“It would simplify matters to untwist it and cut it up into lengths,” he said.
