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spinning frame
noun as in machine for spinning yarn
Example Sentences
A drawing machine later fed the jute into spinning frames, where it was spun into yarn.
A great improvement on the spinning frame of the 18th century is the ring frame invented by Jenks.
He taught himself crafts necessary to invent and patent in 1769 a spinning frame worked by a water wheel, which he called a" water frame".
Yarn.—Yarn may be dyed either in the hank, in the warp or in the cop, i.e. in the form in which the yarn leaves the spinning frame.
This business he gave up about 1767 in order to devote himself to the construction of the spinning frame.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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