| 单词 | throwsting mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrowsting mill General attributive, as throwsting machine, throwsting mill, etc. ΚΠ ?1757 J. Tucker Instr. Travellers 21 In regard to the Silk Manufacture, the Throwsting Mills..are eminent Proofs of the Abridgment of that Species of Labour. 1773 Daily Advertiser 5 July To be Sold by Auction.., All the Utensils and Implements in the Throwsting Business, late belonging to Mr. William Bunney. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 399 The bobbins being thus filled with double or triple threads, are carried back to the throwsting-machine, and are there spun or twisted together. 1828 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 29 Nov. The silk trade..is notoriously in a state of unusual depression, both as to its weaving and throwsting branches. 1895 M. F. Billington Women in India vi. 162 The unevenness of native silk..makes it always very difficult to manage in European throwsting machinery. 1972 Investors Chron. & Stock Exchange Gaz. 3 Nov. 424/2 There now appears to be a shortage of throwsting capacity. < as lemmas |
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