stocking frame

noun

a type of knitting machineAlso called: stocking loom, stocking machine

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Words nearby stocking frame

stocking cap, stockinged, stockinger, stocking feet, stocking filler, stocking frame, stocking mask, stocking stitch, stocking stuffer, stock in trade, stockish

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Example sentences from the Web for stocking frame

William Lee's stocking-frame worked well for two centuries and a half.
Knowledge is Power:|Charles Knight
His cogitations resulted in the contrivance of a stocking-frame, which imitated the movements of the fingers in knitting.
Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science|J. Hamilton Fyfe
Were any people thrown out of employment by the stocking-frame?
Knowledge is Power:|Charles Knight
When we speak of the stocking-frame, we speak of a machine which knits every article of hosiery.
Knowledge is Power:|Charles Knight

But the time of waiting was long and weary before he fell in with a Mr. Strutt, the inventor of the stocking-frame.
The Boyhood of Great Inventors|A. Fraser Robertson

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