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
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
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
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
They actually combine three processes: slubbing, intermediate, and roving, and their aim is to draw the sliver out until it is thinner, more uniform, and cleaner for spinning.
From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett
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
The intermediate frame comes between the slubbing and roving frames and is of similar construction to the slubber, but has a larger number of spindles and smaller tubes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
A number of these rolls are then drawn out by another machine twelve times as long as they were before and twisted together on a slubbing frame.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
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
