In full mendoza wheel. On esp. early spinning mules (see spinning, n. compounds 1b(a)): one of the gearwheels connecting the drive to the carriage to…

In a spinning machine: a wire used to guide yarn onto a spindle (more fully faller wire). Now chiefly historical.

Manufacturing Technology. The framework in which the carriage of a spinning mule runs. Cf. mule, n.1 5a. Now rare.

(in a spinning mule) a large wheel from which drive is transmitted to the spindles by means of a belt or band around its rim, and which also acts as…

In ringspinning: a device used to guide the yarn as it is wound onto the spindle, consisting of a loop fitted to the ring.

the form of spindle used in a ring frame.

(in a combing machine) a comb which carries the fibres to be straightened.

A revolving piece of mechanism. spec. (a) a potter's whirling-table; (b) an apparatus invented by Troughton to serve as an artificial horizon at sea…

Cotton-spinning. An apparatus for coiling the sliver by feeding it into the rotating coiler-cans. Also attributive.

a machine for drawing out the slivers in spinning wool.

a motion on a spinning mule that causes the spindles to undergo a compensating increase in rotational speed as their diameter decreases.

In specific applications usually indicated by context. In wool or worsted spinning: cf. tube yarn n. at compounds 2, and tube, v. 2.

One of a set of boxes, used in the operation of ‘drawing’ wool, in which the wool is more accurately weighed.

a drag-device attached to a spinning mule to check the varying velocity of the spindle carriage.

an aperture or eye through which cotton yarn passes before being wound on to the spindle.

in a ringframe, a board placed over the spindles to hold the thread-guides.