• to ball, to reel, to slew, to slue, to twine, to twist, to wiggle, to wind, wound, to wriggle
• to coil, to slew, to slue, to spiral, to wind, wound
• devious, intricate, tortuous
• crookedness, tortuosity, tortuousity
• banter, jape, pugnaciousness, pugnacity
• conference, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, tract, tractate, treatise
• pugnaciously, quizzically
• to interwind, interwound, to twine
• to reel in, to reel up, to wind up