| 单词 | breast cylinder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreast cylinder c. More fully breast cylinder. The first of a set of cylinders at the front of a carding machine. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > roller or cylinder can1795 worker1818 breast1825 worker card1837 licker-in1850 swift1853 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic Gloss. 773 Breast, the first part of a revolver carding-engine. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woolen & Worsted x. 229 The addition of a breast large enough to entitle it to the name of a cylinder. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 659/1 Against the lickerin revolves the ‘angle-stripper’, the function of which is to remove the wool..and deliver it over to the great breast cylinder. 1922 R. Beaumont Wool Substitutes vii. 147 The worker gleans up a portion of material from the ‘breast’ and separates and mixes the fibres in conjunction with its stripper. 2003 C. A. Lawrence Fund. Spun Yarn Technol. iii. 114 The component settings and point density of the clothing, respectively, become progressively closer and higher from breast to second finisher. < as lemmas |
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