spindleagen.
/ˈspɪnd(ə)lɪdʒ/ The total number of cotton spindles in use at a given time and in a specified area.
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spindleage1921
1921 A. S. Wade Cotton Spinning 15 The loss o[f] spindleage due to the reduction of the working week.
1926 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 751/1 The growth of the United States spindleage from 31,505,000 spindles in 1913 to 37,937,000 spindles in 1925.
1927 J. A. Todd Cotton World 166 The world's spindleage has been increasing steadily.
1927 J. A. Todd Cotton World 168 The spindleage of each country.
1954 R. Robson et al. in A. F. W. Coulson Man. Cotton Spinning I. i. 6 By 1928 the number of spindles had risen to just over 165 million but this was to represent the peak world spindleage.
1972 C. H. Lee Cotton Enterprise ii. 16 The spindleage of the trade grew from 1·7 million to four or five million between the early 1780's and 1812.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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