spinning frame

American  

noun

1. a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.

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Etymology

Origin of spinning frame

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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spinning frame

Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

This business he gave up about 1767 in order to devote himself to the construction of the spinning frame.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

And last, though not least in its direct and indirect effects on slavery, was the cotton gin of Eli Whitney, which formed the other half—the other hand, so to speak—of the spinning frame.

From Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

From this machine the roving is wound on a bobbin ready for the spinning frame.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz