bobbin
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The southeast space had lots of cloth fragments, along with bobbins and loom weights.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
At 13, he worked in an Allegheny cotton mill, changing bobbins 6 days a week, 12 hours a day.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023
The city’s history was on sale at a market on the pavement — old coins, samovars, a Ural bike, spinning bobbins and pocket watches.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
I wielded a wide broom around and under the tailor’s shop and steam press, sweeping up fallen razor blades, bits of chalk, bobbins, severed cuffs, orphaned threads and discarded plastic coffee cups.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2016
He pointed with a laugh to his avowed library—to the shelves of books, the rack full of reading-machine bobbins and sound-track rolls.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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