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CENTRIFUGE |
Spinning machine |
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SPINNER |
One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a
spinning machine. |
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JENNY |
A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used
in factories. |
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WATER FRAME |
A name given to the first power spinning machine,
because driven by water power. |
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SPREADER |
A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to
form a sliver preparatory to spinning. |
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DRAWING |
The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from
the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning. |
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MULE |
A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool,
etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also
jenny and mule-jenny. |
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FALLER |
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill,
or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread
breaks. |
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SLIVER |
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a
loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the
roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning. |
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SPIN |
To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting
threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to
spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. |
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SPINDLE |
The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by
which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound;
also, the pin o... |
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THROSTLE |
A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove,
consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and
differing from th... |