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cloth roll

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noun

  1. a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.


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The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tools they had done it with lay on the floor, on a neat cloth roll, such as wood-carvers keep their chisels in.

From The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

On the sash of each window was a red cloth roll stuffed with sawdust, to prevent draughts; plain white blinds descended about six inches from the top of each window.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

The head-dress is a circular plait of hair, braided with a red cloth roll, which fastens behind, and hangs down in long ends tipped with fringe.

From The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Mrs. David Osborne

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