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bobbin

[bob-in] / ˈbɒb ɪn /


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And how long before this hyperbaric, ultrasonic sewing machine spins a bobbin?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

In the adjoining bathroom, you’ll find brass switchplates and a hand-drawn and -painted black-and-white encaustic tile inspired by European antique bobbin furniture legs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

We hand over our pink bobbin and it's mounted on to the loom.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2017

Spinning like a bobbin, she wraps fabric around her body as fast as others can pull it off.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

After Red left, I stuffed just a few things in a satchel: a dry loaf of bread, some biscuits, a skin of water, and my mother’s bobbin from her spinning wheel.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff


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