spinnery
Americannoun
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spinneries
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Origin of spinnery
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We still own two industrial establishments, the flour mills in Bromberg and a linen spinnery in Landeshut in Silesia.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
In 1858, a German economist wrote, “Railroads and machine shops, coal mines and iron foundries, spinneries and rolling mills seem to spring up out of the ground, and smokestacks sprout from the earth like mushrooms.”
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
That is a fact which the tyrants of the spinneries do not overlook, but they take care that the livelihood shall be as scant as possible.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
Cotton for the twenty spinneries of Moscow, 100,000 poods per an.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
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