Spinning and Weaving. A device on which a spool or spindle revolves. Obsolete.

a spiked roller in a spinning machine (cf. sense 3).

(in a spinning machine) a type of gear mechanism.

In the preparation of yarn: a roving frame in which the sliver (sliver, n.1 2) is twisted and wound on to a bobbin that is suspended horizontally…

Any of various machines or devices; esp. one consisting of a jack or lever enclosed in a box or block… In the preparation of yarn: a jack frame (jack-…

Applied to mechanical contrivances that have a quick revolution. That part of a spinning machine which twists the thread as it conducts it to and…

technical. A catch or device for holding the lever of a spinning-machine.

a wire thread-guide in a spinning-machine.

Spinning. A frame for holding the paying-off bobbins in the process of converting the ‘sliver’ into ‘roving’, or the latter into yarn. Hence also…

(a) Cotton-spinning = flyer frame at flyer, n. 3e; (b) a machine used in the polishing and grinding of glass.

An automatic spinning machine. Earliest in self-actor mule.

the ‘mouth’ or expanded end of a trumpet, or something resembling this (in quot. 1835 = sense 6c).

In a cotton-spinning machine or mule, a wire which passes beneath the yarns, when pressed down by the faller-wire, so as to keep the tension uniform…

In the preparation of yarn: a jack-frame; a roving frame in which the sliver (sliver, n.1 2) is twisted and wound onto a bobbin that is suspended…

Something shaped like a trumpet. A funnel-shaped conductor in a spinning-machine, etc.; also called trumpet-mouth (see compounds 3).

part of a cotton-spinning machine.

That part of a spinning-machine which regulates the yarn as it is wound on the bobbins.

On a spinning or bleaching frame: a ring or cup through which thread or cloth is guided.

In a spinning-machine, the eye of a flyer.

a frame for holding rices (sense 4).