drawing frame

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noun Textiles.

a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.

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Origin of drawing frame

First recorded in 1825–35

Words nearby drawing frame

drawing, drawing account, drawing board, drawing card, drawing chisel, drawing frame, drawing-in, drawing pin, drawing room, drawing-room comedy, drawing table

How to use drawing frame in a sentence

The cans containing the slivers are taken from the card or combing machine (as the case may be) to the drawing frame.
Textiles|William H. Dooley
The push-bar drawing illustrated in Fig. 17, or some other of the same type, is often used as the first drawing frame in a set.
The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth|T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour
The delivery rollers of one type of drawing frame, called the "push-bar" drawing frame, and made by Messsrs.
The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth|T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour
It will be seen from the large pressing rollers that there are two pairs; hence the machine is a "two-head" drawing frame.
The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth|T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour

The loss which the cotton suffers in the drawing frame is quite inconsiderable.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure