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Firmly twisted in spinning.

The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp. African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum)…

A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories.

A female servant. Spinning amongst her maids. Shak.

a stout spindle, adapted esp. for chucking, as for forming hollow articles by turning or spinning.

The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny. Mule armadillo (Zoöl.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; -- called also mulita. See Illust. under Armadillo. -- Mule deer (Zoöl.), a large d…

A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

t metal, or of forming it into cup- shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n.,

A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. Chapman. Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid. Spenser.

wist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

hine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.

state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.

The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

The business of one who spins; spinning. [Obs.] Milton.

A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

matic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.