torqued

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  1. Twisted; convoluted. On this West shore we found a dead fish floating, which had in his nose a horne streight and torquet, of length two yards lacking two ynches. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 35.
  2. Twisted like a rope: said of metal-work. A pair of ear-rings of base silver, the large torqued circles of which were closed by a sort of hook and eye. Archæologia, XXXVII. 102.
  3. In heraldry, same as targant.

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  • Kit is supplied as a roller for shipping purposes only i.e. nothing is torqued etc. —  Jalopnik
  • A handful of torqued-up cinema goers in Gatineau were nabbed by police when the movie let out Friday night after they attempted to emulate racing scenes. —  Ottawa Sun
  • Again and again, at agency after agency, government science has been undermined, torqued, twisted, muzzled. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • Interestingly, the first was about your first or renewed efforts with serious portraiture of the 97 year old man in tweed, the next was this one about torqued (and twisted) depth of field. —  Jeff Curto's Camera Position
  • Other required maintenance is making sure the ring bolts of the beadlocks are torqued to the required pressure every month or so. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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  1. from Old French torquer, twist, from Latin torquere, twist (see torque), + -ed.
 

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