| 单词 | mule jenny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmule jenny mule jenny n. now historical a spinning machine; = sense 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > types of water frame1777 spinning-jenny1783 mule1791 mule jenny1792 throstle1792 jenny1796 muslin wheel1830 hand mule1831 self-shifter1834 ring frame1850 cap-frame1884 trap-twister1884 trap-winder1884 1792 W. Kelly Brit. Patent 1879 (1856) 2 Those machines, commonly known by the names of roving billies and slobbing and common and mule jennies. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 171 A soft thread to be..spun, on the mule-jenny, into yarn fit for the loom. 1972 Sci. Amer. Dec. 51/2 The intermittent, two-phase process of hand spinning was carried over to Samuel Crompton's mule jenny of 1779. 1999 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 14 Nov. t9 When Britain desperately wanted to hold on to the trademark secrets of the spinning ‘mule jenny’..Bauwens stole it by having the machine dismantled in Britain and smuggled out among a cargo of coffee. < as lemmas |
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