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bobbin

noun as in spool

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The southeast space had lots of cloth fragments, along with bobbins and loom weights.

The large courtyard was sunlit and humming with busyness, as twelve women sat at large frames making bobbin lace.

Threads and wool of all colors, bobbins, tools and spinning wheels are everywhere.

At 13, he worked in an Allegheny cotton mill, changing bobbins 6 days a week, 12 hours a day.

A few days later, antislavery members lined up behind the American Party’s “Bobbin Boy” Banks, who as a boy worked in a textile factory carrying bobbins of thread to the women who operated the looms.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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