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Spinnery

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• Spinney

  noun, plural spinneys. British. 1. a small wood or thicket. noun 1. (mainly Brit) a small wood or copse

• Spinning

  noun 1. Textiles. the act or process of converting staple or short lengths of fiber, as cotton or rayon, into continuous yarn or thread. the extrusion of a solution of fiber-forming substances through holes in a spinneret to form filaments. 2. Entomology. the act or process of secreting and placing silk or silklike filaments, as […]

• Spinning-box

  noun 1. centrifugal box.

• Spinning-frame

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

• Spinning-jenny

  noun 1. an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns simultaneously. spinning jenny noun 1. an early type of spinning frame with several spindles, invented by James Hargreaves in 1764

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