单词 | reel staff |
释义 | > as lemmasreel staff reel staff n. Weaving (now historical) a length of wood holding a skein of yarn between two iron pins; (later) a rod that holds a reel in a machine. ΚΠ 1630 in Minutes Norwich Court of Mayoralty 1630–1 (1942) 124 xlii dozen & eight Relestaves of Smalluff yarne which ought to be a yard about in the length of the Rulstaffe. 1650 in Acts & Ordnances Interregnum, 1642–60 (1911) II. 453 All Yarns called Worsted-Yarns..shall be..reeled on a Reel of a full Yard about, every Reel-staff containing Fourteen Lea's. 1870 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1868 II. 397/2 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) X The lower part of the reel staff may rotate, and as the reel revolves, the connections between the reel shaft and rake staff, together with the cam guide, cause the rake head to sweep over the platform. 1877 U.S. Trademark 191,160 in Specifications of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 12 June 443/1 A represents the reel-staff. B is the chainpulley on the power-wheel, around which the chain a is passed. 1985 E. Kerridge Textile Manuf. Early Mod. Eng. xiv. 211 It was agreed in 1630 that yarnmasters should continue selling by the reel staff of one yard about, each staff having on it a dozen of worsted, i.e. fourteen leas of eighty yards, each lea having forty threads... Any country spinner could provide himself with a reel staff, which was just a length of wood with two iron pins driven in half a yard apart, so that each wind about came to one yard. < as lemmas |
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