| 单词 | water frame |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater frame water frame n. †(a) a frame or gate used to control the water in a millstream (obsolete rare); (b) a water-powered spinning machine, spec. of the type invented by the British inventor and industrialist Richard Arkwright (1732–92) (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > types of water frame1777 spinning-jenny1783 mule1791 mule jenny1792 throstle1792 jenny1796 muslin wheel1830 hand mule1831 self-shifter1834 ring frame1850 cap-frame1884 trap-twister1884 trap-winder1884 1777 L. Carter Diary 18 July (1965) II. 1114 My Mill dam was tried by it [sc. a downpour], for right over that unfortunate hole first occasioned by setting the Water frame in the bed of this race it sunk one foot down. 1793 J. Arthur Let. 9 Dec. in T. Jefferson Papers (1997) XXVII. 499 I will Engage to make a mashiene of evry Sort for the weft and a mule one water frame and the Preporation for the whole. 1814 Scots Mag. Dec. 904/1 The next improvement of spinning machinery was Arkwright's water-frame, by which that particular kind of yarn, termed engine or water-twist, is produced. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 260/2 As the water frame is too large and expensive to use in cottages, its invention leads to one of the key changes in Britain's Industrial Revolution, the introduction of centralized factories. < as lemmas |
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