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1806 Derby Mercury 7 Aug. (advt.) Wanted, Fifty Throstle Spinners.

1828 Amer. Farmer 10 Oct. 239/3 It [sc. a new machine for spinning flax and hemp] is said..to produce about the same quantity as the throstle spindles in the cotton manufacture.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 40 A throstle frame made in the best manner.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 71 The throstle twist, which has been so largely exported of late years.

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. i. 35 The roller principle, modified in a manner..represented by the throstle machine, is that by which the strong and hard yarns are produced.

1862 Illustr. London News 41 558/3 The Throstle Spinner..has an assistant, called the Throstle Doffer, a little girl or boy.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) viii. 150 There are four methods of spinning worsted, three of which come under the head of throstle frames... The fourth is the mule.

1959 N. Smelser Social Change in Industr. Revol. 214 Throstle reelers earned 19 s. per week in 1806, but by 1810 this had declined to 12 s.

1990 I. Cohen Amer. Managem. & Brit. Labor ii. 29 In 1811 Britain had thirteen mule spindles for every throstle and in 1831 the proportion of mule to throstle spindles was twelve to one.

2007 Past & Present May 152 Throstle-spinners, largely a female group, struck as well.