| 单词 | billy roller |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbilly roller billy roller n. the wooden roller of a slubbing ‘billy’ (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > drawing or twisting > equipment for > parts of billy roller1834 Jack-in-the-box1841 cap-bar1897 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 297 Down came on his head..the patriotic billy-roller. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1166 This is the billy-roller, so much talked of in the controversies between the operatives and masters in the cotton-factories, as an instrument of cruel punishment to children, though no such machine has been used in cotton-mills for half a century at least. < as lemmas |
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