twister

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: twist=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

twister, n. 

•  One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.  [1913 Webster]
•  The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.  [1913 Webster]

  "He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine."  [1913 Webster]
•  A girder.  Craig.  [1913 Webster]
•  The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.  Craig.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

twister, n.
1 Brit. colloq. a swindler; a dishonest person.
2 a twisting ball in cricket or billiards.
3 US a tornado, waterspout, etc.

THESAURUS

twister

apple fritter, baguio, beignet, beignet aux pommes, bismarck, cheat, con man, confidence man, crook, cruller, cyclone, deceiver, doughnut, dust devil, fastnacht, fraud, friedcake, fritter, hurricane, imposter, impostor, mountebank, olykoek, rainspout, raised doughnut, rogue, rotary storm, sand column, sandspout, scoundrel, sinker, swindler, tornado, trickster, typhoon, waterspout, whirlblast, whirlwind, wind eddy