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silk-winder [f. silk n. + winder.] 1. One who winds or coils silk filament or thread preparatory to weaving.
1611Florio, Indouanadore, a silke-winder. 1662Act 14 Chas. II, c. 15 §6 Every such Silk-winder and Doubler. 1786Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 103 Since it came out of the hands of the silk-winder. 2. a. A silk-reel. b. A machine by which silk thread in the hank is transferred to the bobbin before spinning.
1858in Simmonds Dict. Trade. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2182/1 Fanshaw's silk-winder, English patent, 1827, was designed to avoid the breakage of the filament in winding the skein silk on to bobbins. So † silk-windress, -windster. Obs.
1598Florio, Diuidatrice, a silke winderesse. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6187/4 Eleanor Brown, late of Milk-yard Shadwell, Silk-windster. |