snubbing

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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 Moore, John Trotwood

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 Bassett, Sara Ware

After this the cotton is usually deemed to be quite ready for the immediately succeeding process of "slubbing."

From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Wilkinson, Frederick

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

In the carding, slubbing, intermediate, roving, and spinning machinery there is in every case an increase in the amount of machinery tended.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)