†(a) a frame or gate used to control the water in a millstream (obsolete rare); (b) a water-powered spinning machine, spec. of the type invented by…

An early form of spinning-machine (introduced by James Hargreaves about 1764–7 and patented in 1770) in which several spindles were set in motion by…

In technical applications: something which combines aspects of two different sources. A kind of spinning machine invented in 1779 by Samuel…

a spinning machine; = sense 5a.

A kind of spinning machine for cotton, wool, or other fibres, operated by water or steam power and simultaneously performing the processes of…

Short for spinning-jenny, n.

= mule, n.1 5a.

a spinning mule (see mule, n.1 5a) operated by hand.

A cop reel which can move from one bobbin or hank to another using an automatic mechanism. Obsolete.

a spinning machine in which the thread is wound by means of a traveller running on a horizontal ring.

a type of spinning-frame in which the guide for the yarn takes the form of a cap.

in Spinning, a twisting or winding machine in which the roller or bobbin is stopped by a spring arrangement as soon as the yarn breaks (cf. 10).

= trap-twister n.