slub
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A full-zip sweater for men sells for $128, while a woman’s slub turtleneck goes for $70.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
Therefore, celebrate this sunny beach destination with L.A. brand Hiro Clark’s ultra-soft Tulum tee made from 100% slub cotton jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Priced at $28 for two, the neutral bandannas are made of the same cotton slub jersey as the brand’s popular T-shirts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
Slub, slub, v.t. to twist after carding to prepare for spinning.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
This weft is about the equivalent of commercial slub with no tensile strength.
From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey
Too often, as in the past, he slubbed words into what was neither poetic language nor human speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
Don't carry 'em up there, where they're liable to get slubbed.
From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy
Instead of having cans put at the back, the slubbing tubes are mounted vertically in a creel, passed in pairs through the rollers, and drawn down to a smaller diameter than a single slubbing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
From the drawing frame these "slivers" go to the slubbing machines where it is lightly twisted and wound on bobbins.
From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by Idabelle McGlauflin
The slubbing is passed between the rollers in pairs, the emerging product being less in diameter than the diameter of a single slubbing.
From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York
It was beautiful to see how, forgetting himself and his sermon, he prepared to entertain, in his quaint way, this slave to the slubbing machine.
From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore
The sliver, now being twisted, is called a sliver no longer, but the slubbing.
From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York
