yarnn.

Brit.

/jɑːn/, U.S.

/jɑrn/

Forms: Old English gearn, Middle English ȝern, iern, yaarn, Middle English–1500s yern(e, Middle English ȝarn(e, ȝieren, yeern, Middle English–1600s yarne, 1500s yaren, yarone, yeryn, yorne, 1500s–1600s yearne, 1600s yearn, Middle English– yarn.

Etymology: Old English gearn strong n. = West Frisian jern , North Frisian jaarn , juarn , Middle Dutch gaern , gar(e)n (Dutch garen ), Old High German, Middle High German, German garn yarn, †net, Old Norse (Swedish, Danish) garn (whence garn n.); apparently < the root represented also by *garnô in Old Norse gǫrn , plural garnar guts, and *garnjo- in Old English micgern , Old Saxon midgarni , Old High German mittigarni midgen n. (= entrail-fat, suet), and related (outside Germanic) to Lithuanian žárna intestine, Latin hariolus soothsayer, haruspex one who divined the future from an inspection of the entrails of victims, Greek χορδή intestine (chord n.¹). (Compare, moreover, Sanskrit hirā vein, Latin hīra empty gut, hillae < *hirl- smaller intestines.)

a. Originally, spun fibre, as of cotton, silk, wool, flax; now, usually, fibre spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, the manufacture of sewing-thread, etc.Also with qualification, as cotton, linen, woollen yarn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun]

yarnc1000

threadc1386

Muscovy yarn1604

multifilament1944

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 238/27 Filatum, gearn.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 187/30 Glomus, unwunden gearn.

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 157 A klewe of yarn.

c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 157 Do my yaarn on the reel.

1376 Rolls of Parl. II. 353/1 Tout maner de ȝern.

1391 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisd. Norwich (1892) 75 x hespys de Irlondyern pretii iiij. d.

1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 Item dimidium þe ȝieren and wolle that is in this house.

1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII. c. 6 §1 The carder and Spynner to delyver agayn to the same Clothier yerne of the same Woll.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (ed. 2) (1744) VII. 44 Good Marchandis at Lyrpole, and moch Yrisch Yarn that Manchester Men do by ther.

1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 6 On cope of whitte & blewe yorne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iii. 85 You would be another Penelope: yet they say, all the yearne she spun in Vlisses absence, did but fill Athica full of Mothes.

1748 in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1918) 28 We had about eighty Score of Yarn stole out of garth.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 53 Well-tann'd hides,..With here and there a tuft of crimson yarn..in the cushion fixt.

1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. iii. iv. 707 The manufacturers obtain the finer sorts of yarn chiefly from Yorkshire and Ireland.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiii. 199 A long stocking of mixed blue and white yarn.

figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 74 The webbe of our life, is of a mingled yarne, good and ill together. 1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 604/1 In the mingled yarn of human life.in extended use.1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 56 Eggs, from which emerge..bodies enveloped in a soft plush of grey yarn.

b. collective singular put for fishermen's nets. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun]

fishing-net1530

yarn1535

fisher-net1601

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvii. 20 I wil cast my net aboute him, and catch him in my yarne.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hab. i. C They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne [Luther Garn].

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Yarn, ‘Take the yarn’, said of herrings when they strike the net.

c. In Rope-making, one of the threads of which a strand of rope is composed (= rope yarn n. 2), or these threads collectively.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope collective or as material > strand or part of strand

strain1589

rope yarn1620

yarn1627

twist1685

ready1851

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > strand of rope > part of strand

rope yarn1620

yarn1627

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 25 Spunyarne is nothing but rope yarne made small at the ends, and so spun one to another so long as you will with a winch.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 59 Yarn, called twenty-five, twenty, and eighteen thread yarn, differs only in the fineness; the twenty-five being finer than the twenty.

1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 753/1 The first part of the process of rope-making is that of spinning the yarn or threads.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 28 18-yarn spunyarn.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 51 If it is for boltrope 3 inches in circumference, each strand will have 30 yarns.

a. to spin a yarn (figurative, originally Nautical slang), to tell a story (usually a long one); also, ‘to pitch a tale’. Hence yarn = a (long) story or tale: sometimes implying one of a marvellous or incredible kind; also, a mere tale. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell a story [verb (intransitive)]

to tell one's taleOE

narrate1795

to spin a yarn1819

yarn1859

to spin a twist1867

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > long

Iliad1609

to spin a yarn1819

saga1935

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Yarning or spinning a yarn, signifying to relate their various adventures, exploits, and escapes to each other.

1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. ix. 155 Come, spin us a good yarn, father.

1834 F. Marryat Pacha II. vi. 113 ‘You must tell lies, and you will have gold.’ ‘Tell lies! that is, spin a yarn; well, I can do that.’

1837–42 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. vi. 97 Like uncle Parker,..I am a spinner of long yarns.

1888 Poor Nellie 162 Catch them spinning any of their yarns to me.

1897 H. Caine in Humanitarian XI. 234 What I mean is that without motive a story in not a novel, but only a yarn.

1903 Dublin Rev. July 131 All further developments of these traditions were mere ‘yarns’.

b. A chat, a talk. colloquial (chiefly Australian and New Zealand).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat

confabulationc1450

device1490

chat1573

tittle-tattle?c1640

small talk1650

confab1701

chit-chat1710

jaw1748

small-talking1786

prose1787

rap1787

coze1804

talky-talky1812

clack1813

chit-chatting1823

cozey1837

gossip1849

mardlea1852

yarn1857

conflab1873

chinwag1879

chopsing1879

cooze1880

chatting1884

schmoozing1884

talky-talk1884

pitch1888

schmooze1895

coosy1903

wongi1929

yap1930

kibitz1931

natter1943

old talk1956

jaw-jaw1958

yacking1959

ole talk1964

rapping1967

1857 H. W. Harper Lett. from N.Z. (1914) iii. 49 This has been a long yarn.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. x. 80 ‘Come away, Hawkins,’ he would say; ‘come and have a yarn with John.’

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xii. 156 After tea father and I and Jim had a long yarn.

1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xv. 147 Meenie and Bandogera had taken advantage of her absence to have a smoke and a yarn together at the wood~heap.

1937 D. Cowie N.Z. from Within vii. 109 The word is used in its oldest sense. The New Zealander's ‘yarn’ is the Scotsman's ‘news’.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 124 Other counts have been based on written material and the Australian one on spoken. This accounts for the inclusion of kid (‘child’).., yarn (‘talk’).., [etc.].

1979 B. Moore Mangan Inheritance ii. 295 We can take it easy for a while and have a real yarn together.

1984 Times 11 Sept. 32/8 I still see some of the Roman Catholics in the street..and we have a yarn.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)For other names of apparatus used in yarn manufacture see E. H. Knight's Pract. Dict. Mech.

(a)

yarn ball n.

ΚΠ

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 295/2 Pila paganica,..a bal stuft with soft wooll or haire, and vsed to be tossed from hand to hand: a tossing ball: a yarne ball.

yarn-carrier n.

ΚΠ

1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 100 The yarns now pass to their respective yarn carriers, the function of which is to place the yarn in the path of the single set of sinkers.

1957 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 109 Yarn carrier,..the final element which guides the yarn to the knitting instruments.

yarn hose n.

ΚΠ

1578 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 144 Eyght small women chyldren spinnyng worsted yarne, and..as many knittyng of worsted yarne hose.

yarn-man n.

ΚΠ

1637 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 168 Goodman Howes, of Bury, yarneman.

yarn rope n.

ΚΠ

1534 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 49 A yerynrope.

yarn scales n.

ΚΠ

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iv. 95 The yarn-scales in the weigh-house.

yarn spindle n.

ΚΠ

1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 736 She draws the yarn-spindle from her bosom.

yarn stockings n.

ΚΠ

1704 London Gaz. No. 4056/8 Blue Yarn Stockings.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 219 Knitting coarse yarn stockings.

yarn thread n.

ΚΠ

1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling Pref. p. xiii My ‘yarn thread’ was strong enough to twitch out the trout to the green bank where I stood.

yarn twine n.

ΚΠ

1664 Keymer's Observ. Dutch Fishing 7 To make Cables and Cordage, likewise Yarn Twine, and Thred for the makeing of Nets and Lines.

(b)

yarn-buyer n.

ΚΠ

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 11 The eagle-sighted yarn-buyer.

yarn-factoring n.

ΚΠ

1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxviii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 168/2 A race of..linen-weaving, Presbyterian yarn-factoring..fellows.

yarn-jobber n.

ΚΠ

1720 London Gaz. No. 5878/8 William Hill,..Yarne-jobber.

yarn manufacture n.

ΚΠ

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 664/2 The whole operations in yarn manufacture comprise (1) heckling, (2) preparing, and (3) spinning.

yarn-manufacturer n.

ΚΠ

1783 Specif. Patent 1365 1 Thomas Baker, of Derby..Yarn Manufacturer.

yarn-seller n.

ΚΠ

1705 London Gaz. No. 4188/4 Richard Corbett, of Spittle-fields, Yarn-seller.

b. (In sense 2.)

yarn-slinger n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller

tale-tellera1387

talesman?a1505

historian1586

fabulator1604

tales-master1656

narrator1722

spinner1770

storier1816

Scheherazade1851

yarn-spinner1865

yarn-teller1891

yarn-slinger1897

1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Yarn-slinger, one who writes tales in newspapers.

yarn-teller n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller

tale-tellera1387

talesman?a1505

historian1586

fabulator1604

tales-master1656

narrator1722

spinner1770

storier1816

Scheherazade1851

yarn-spinner1865

yarn-teller1891

yarn-slinger1897

1891 Tablet 7 Nov. 742 The most confirmed American yarn-teller.

C2.

yarn-clue n. a ball of yarn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > ball of

clew956

bottom1440

clowchync1440

ball1572

clue1611

glome1643

yarn-clue1820

1820 W. Scott Monastery III. viii. 194 Like to the yarn-clew of the drowsy knitter, Dragg'd by the frolic kitten thro' the cabin.

yarn count n. = count n.¹ 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > standard of fineness of

count1877

number1923

yarn count1923

1923 G. G. Denny Fabrics i. 31 Yarn count—a number given to yarn indicating its fineness, based upon number of yards per pound, more correctly called ‘yarn number’.

1963 H. G. Jerrard & D. B. McNeill Dict. Sci. Units 154 In the textile industry the yarn count or yarn number gives either the mass per unit length or the length per unit mass of a yarn fibre.

yarn-croft n. Obsolete exc. dialect a rope-yard.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > rope

ropery1329

rope-house1571

rope-yard1640

yarn-crofta1661

rope-work1663

rope-ground1665

ropewalk1671

walk1747

laying house1778

a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 11 A dainty quay here is, and many yarne-crofts here about.

yarn-dyed adj. dyed while in the state of yarn or thread.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > process or technique

woaded1579

galled1581

overdyeda1616

wool-dyed1832

piece-dyed1841

chromed1876

yarn-dyed1885

yūzen1902

box-coloured1903

tie-dyed1903

after-chrome1904

batik1914

vat-dyed1946

premetallized1949

spun-dyed1955

spin-dyed1963

1885 J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 289 If in any dyed woollen fabric..the dyeing took place while it was in the state of thread or yarn, it is said to be yarn-dyed.

yarn-frame n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 755/1 The yarn reels were placed individually in a stationary frame at the head of the rope-ground; and it appears that the register was to be conveyed onwards towards the yarn frame, as the strand was twisted by the hook of a sledge, at the end where the process commenced, until the whole strand was made.

yarn-guide n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 756/2 The yarn guide, or perforated plate, through which the rope yarns pass individually to concentre at the press block.

yarn-house n. a building in which yarns are stored.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > place for > for storage

yarn-house1794

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 60 After yarn is tarred, it is laid in the yarn-house..to harden.

yarn-reel n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 88 A Yarn-reel is a circular board, nailed in the middle to a piece of oak,..16 inches long, and is used to wind spun-yarn on.

yarn-roll n. = yarn-beam n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > beam > for warp

yarn-beam1598

yarn-roll1831

warp-beam1845

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. iii. iii. 215 A weight..suspended over the yarn-roll to produce..the requisite tension of the threads of the warp.

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单词	yarn
释义	yarnn. Brit. /jɑːn/, U.S. /jɑrn/ Forms: Old English gearn, Middle English ȝern, iern, yaarn, Middle English–1500s yern(e, Middle English ȝarn(e, ȝieren, yeern, Middle English–1600s yarne, 1500s yaren, yarone, yeryn, yorne, 1500s–1600s yearne, 1600s yearn, Middle English– yarn. Etymology: Old English gearn strong n. = West Frisian jern , North Frisian jaarn , juarn , Middle Dutch gaern , gar(e)n (Dutch garen ), Old High German, Middle High German, German garn yarn, †net, Old Norse (Swedish, Danish) garn (whence garn n.); apparently < the root represented also by garnô in Old Norse gǫrn* , plural garnar guts, and garnjo- in Old English micgern* , Old Saxon midgarni , Old High German mittigarni midgen n. (= entrail-fat, suet), and related (outside Germanic) to Lithuanian žárna intestine, Latin hariolus soothsayer, haruspex one who divined the future from an inspection of the entrails of victims, Greek χορδή intestine (chord n.¹). (Compare, moreover, Sanskrit hirā vein, Latin hīra empty gut, hillae < hirl- smaller intestines.) 1. a. Originally, spun fibre, as of cotton, silk, wool, flax; now, usually, fibre spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, the manufacture of sewing-thread, etc.Also with qualification, as cotton, linen, woollen yarn. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] yarnc1000 threadc1386 Muscovy yarn1604 multifilament1944 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab.* (1884) I. 238/27 Filatum, gearn. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 187/30 Glomus, unwunden gearn. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 157 A klewe of yarn. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 157 Do my yaarn on the reel. 1376 Rolls of Parl. II. 353/1 Tout maner de ȝern. 1391 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisd. Norwich (1892) 75 x hespys de Irlondyern pretii iiij. d. 1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 Item dimidium þe ȝieren and wolle that is in this house. 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII. c. 6 §1 The carder and Spynner to delyver agayn to the same Clothier yerne of the same Woll. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (ed. 2) (1744) VII. 44 Good Marchandis at Lyrpole, and moch Yrisch Yarn that Manchester Men do by ther. 1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 6 On cope of whitte & blewe yorne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iii. 85 You would be another Penelope: yet they say, all the yearne she spun in Vlisses absence, did but fill Athica full of Mothes. View more context for this quotation 1748 in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1918) 28 We had about eighty Score of Yarn stole out of garth. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 53 Well-tann'd hides,..With here and there a tuft of crimson yarn..in the cushion fixt. 1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. iii. iv. 707 The manufacturers obtain the finer sorts of yarn chiefly from Yorkshire and Ireland. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiii. 199 A long stocking of mixed blue and white yarn. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 74 The webbe of our life, is of a mingled yarne, good and ill together. View more context for this quotation1832 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 604/1 In the mingled yarn of human life.in extended use.1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 56 Eggs, from which emerge..bodies enveloped in a soft plush of grey yarn. b. collective singular put for fishermen's nets. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] fishing-net1530 yarn1535 fisher-net1601 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvii. 20 I wil cast my net aboute him, and catch him in my yarne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hab. i. C They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne [Luther Garn]. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Yarn, ‘Take the yarn’, said of herrings when they strike the net. c. In Rope-making, one of the threads of which a strand of rope is composed (= rope yarn n. 2), or these threads collectively. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope collective or as material > strand or part of strand strain1589 rope yarn1620 yarn1627 twist1685 ready1851 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > strand of rope > part of strand rope yarn1620 yarn1627 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 25 Spunyarne is nothing but rope yarne made small at the ends, and so spun one to another so long as you will with a winch. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 59 Yarn, called twenty-five, twenty, and eighteen thread yarn, differs only in the fineness; the twenty-five being finer than the twenty. 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 753/1 The first part of the process of rope-making is that of spinning the yarn or threads. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 28 18-yarn spunyarn. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 51 If it is for boltrope 3 inches in circumference, each strand will have 30 yarns. 2. a. to spin a yarn (figurative, originally Nautical slang), to tell a story (usually a long one); also, ‘to pitch a tale’. Hence yarn = a (long) story or tale: sometimes implying one of a marvellous or incredible kind; also, a mere tale. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell a story [verb (intransitive)] to tell one's taleOE narrate1795 to spin a yarn1819 yarn1859 to spin a twist1867 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > long Iliad1609 to spin a yarn1819 saga1935 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Yarning or spinning a yarn, signifying to relate their various adventures, exploits, and escapes to each other. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. ix. 155 Come, spin us a good yarn, father. 1834 F. Marryat Pacha II. vi. 113 ‘You must tell lies, and you will have gold.’ ‘Tell lies! that is, spin a yarn; well, I can do that.’ 1837–42 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. vi. 97 Like uncle Parker,..I am a spinner of long yarns. 1888 Poor Nellie 162 Catch them spinning any of their yarns to me. 1897 H. Caine in Humanitarian XI. 234 What I mean is that without motive a story in not a novel, but only a yarn. 1903 Dublin Rev. July 131 All further developments of these traditions were mere ‘yarns’. b. A chat, a talk. colloquial (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat confabulationc1450 device1490 chat1573 tittle-tattle?c1640 small talk1650 confab1701 chit-chat1710 jaw1748 small-talking1786 prose1787 rap1787 coze1804 talky-talky1812 clack1813 chit-chatting1823 cozey1837 gossip1849 mardlea1852 yarn1857 conflab1873 chinwag1879 chopsing1879 cooze1880 chatting1884 schmoozing1884 talky-talk1884 pitch1888 schmooze1895 coosy1903 wongi1929 yap1930 kibitz1931 natter1943 old talk1956 jaw-jaw1958 yacking1959 ole talk1964 rapping1967 1857 H. W. Harper Lett. from N.Z. (1914) iii. 49 This has been a long yarn. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. x. 80 ‘Come away, Hawkins,’ he would say; ‘come and have a yarn with John.’ 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xii. 156 After tea father and I and Jim had a long yarn. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xv. 147 Meenie and Bandogera had taken advantage of her absence to have a smoke and a yarn together at the wood~heap. 1937 D. Cowie N.Z. from Within vii. 109 The word is used in its oldest sense. The New Zealander's ‘yarn’ is the Scotsman's ‘news’. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vi. 124 Other counts have been based on written material and the Australian one on spoken. This accounts for the inclusion of kid (‘child’).., yarn (‘talk’).., [etc.]. 1979 B. Moore Mangan Inheritance ii. 295 We can take it easy for a while and have a real yarn together. 1984 Times 11 Sept. 32/8 I still see some of the Roman Catholics in the street..and we have a yarn. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.)For other names of apparatus used in yarn manufacture see E. H. Knight's Pract. Dict. Mech. (a) yarn ball n. ΚΠ 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 295/2 Pila paganica,..a bal stuft with soft wooll or haire, and vsed to be tossed from hand to hand: a tossing ball: a yarne ball. yarn-carrier n. ΚΠ 1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 100 The yarns now pass to their respective yarn carriers, the function of which is to place the yarn in the path of the single set of sinkers. 1957 Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 109 Yarn carrier,..the final element which guides the yarn to the knitting instruments. yarn hose n. ΚΠ 1578 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) II. 144 Eyght small women chyldren spinnyng worsted yarne, and..as many knittyng of worsted yarne hose. yarn-man n. ΚΠ 1637 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 168 Goodman Howes, of Bury, yarneman. yarn rope n. ΚΠ 1534 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 49 A yerynrope. yarn scales n. ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iv. 95 The yarn-scales in the weigh-house. yarn spindle n. ΚΠ 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 736 She draws the yarn-spindle from her bosom. yarn stockings n. ΚΠ 1704 London Gaz. No. 4056/8 Blue Yarn Stockings. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 219 Knitting coarse yarn stockings. yarn thread n. ΚΠ 1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling Pref. p. xiii My ‘yarn thread’ was strong enough to twitch out the trout to the green bank where I stood. yarn twine n. ΚΠ 1664 Keymer's Observ. Dutch Fishing 7 To make Cables and Cordage, likewise Yarn Twine, and Thred for the makeing of Nets and Lines. (b) yarn-buyer n. ΚΠ 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 11 The eagle-sighted yarn-buyer. yarn-factoring n. ΚΠ 1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxviii, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 168/2 A race of..linen-weaving, Presbyterian yarn-factoring..fellows. yarn-jobber n. ΚΠ 1720 London Gaz. No. 5878/8 William Hill,..Yarne-jobber. yarn manufacture n. ΚΠ 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 664/2 The whole operations in yarn manufacture comprise (1) heckling, (2) preparing, and (3) spinning. yarn-manufacturer n. ΚΠ 1783 Specif. Patent 1365 1 Thomas Baker, of Derby..Yarn Manufacturer. yarn-seller n. ΚΠ 1705 London Gaz. No. 4188/4 Richard Corbett, of Spittle-fields, Yarn-seller. b. (In sense 2.) yarn-slinger n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller tale-tellera1387 talesman?a1505 historian1586 fabulator1604 tales-master1656 narrator1722 spinner1770 storier1816 Scheherazade1851 yarn-spinner1865 yarn-teller1891 yarn-slinger1897 1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Yarn-slinger, one who writes tales in newspapers. yarn-teller n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller tale-tellera1387 talesman?a1505 historian1586 fabulator1604 tales-master1656 narrator1722 spinner1770 storier1816 Scheherazade1851 yarn-spinner1865 yarn-teller1891 yarn-slinger1897 1891 Tablet 7 Nov. 742 The most confirmed American yarn-teller. C2. yarn-clue n. a ball of yarn. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > ball of clew956 bottom1440 clowchync1440 ball1572 clue1611 glome1643 yarn-clue1820 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. viii. 194 Like to the yarn-clew of the drowsy knitter, Dragg'd by the frolic kitten thro' the cabin. yarn count n. = count n.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > standard of fineness of count1877 number1923 yarn count1923 1923 G. G. Denny Fabrics i. 31 Yarn count—a number given to yarn indicating its fineness, based upon number of yards per pound, more correctly called ‘yarn number’. 1963 H. G. Jerrard & D. B. McNeill Dict. Sci. Units 154 In the textile industry the yarn count or yarn number gives either the mass per unit length or the length per unit mass of a yarn fibre. yarn-croft n. Obsolete exc. dialect a rope-yard. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > rope ropery1329 rope-house1571 rope-yard1640 yarn-crofta1661 rope-work1663 rope-ground1665 ropewalk1671 walk1747 laying house1778 a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 11 A dainty quay here is, and many yarne-crofts here about. yarn-dyed adj. dyed while in the state of yarn or thread. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > process or technique woaded1579 galled1581 overdyeda1616 wool-dyed1832 piece-dyed1841 chromed1876 yarn-dyed1885 yūzen1902 box-coloured1903 tie-dyed1903 after-chrome1904 batik1914 vat-dyed1946 premetallized1949 spun-dyed1955 spin-dyed1963 1885 J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 289 If in any dyed woollen fabric..the dyeing took place while it was in the state of thread or yarn, it is said to be yarn-dyed. yarn-frame n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 755/1 The yarn reels were placed individually in a stationary frame at the head of the rope-ground; and it appears that the register was to be conveyed onwards towards the yarn frame, as the strand was twisted by the hook of a sledge, at the end where the process commenced, until the whole strand was made. yarn-guide n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 756/2 The yarn guide, or perforated plate, through which the rope yarns pass individually to concentre at the press block. yarn-house n. a building in which yarns are stored. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > place for > for storage yarn-house1794 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 60 After yarn is tarred, it is laid in the yarn-house..to harden. yarn-reel n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 88 A Yarn-reel is a circular board, nailed in the middle to a piece of oak,..16 inches long, and is used to wind spun-yarn on. yarn-roll n. = yarn-beam n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > beam > for warp yarn-beam1598 yarn-roll1831 warp-beam1845 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. iii. iii. 215 A weight..suspended over the yarn-roll to produce..the requisite tension of the threads of the warp. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). yarnv. Brit. /jɑːn/, U.S. /jɑrn/ Etymology: < yarn n. (sense 2). colloquial. a. intransitive. To ‘spin a yarn’, tell a story; also, to chat or talk. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > chat dallyc1300 confablec1450 crack1529 tattle1547 chat1551 confabulate1604 confab1741 prosea1764 parleyvoo1765 coze1818 yarn1819 cosher1833 to pass a good morning1835 small-talk1848 mardle1853 cooze1870 chinwag1879 rap1909 kibitz1923 to shoot the breeze1941 old-talk1956 ole-talk1971 gyaff1976 gist1992 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell a story [verb (intransitive)] to tell one's taleOE narrate1795 to spin a yarn1819 yarn1859 to spin a twist1867 1819 [see yarning n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn II. xiv. 283 The head man of that there gang is..a-sitting yarning with your boss. 1880 19th Cent. No. 38. 655 So we talked and yarned till I grew sleepy and dozed off. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 13 Too friendly to pay a short call, they came and sat for hours yarning about nothing in particular. 1939 A. Powell What's become of Waring? vii. 206 If I..start yarning with him..we shall be late for dinner. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xvii. 122 In the whitewashed Birdsville Hotel, low-roofed but with dim, cool rooms, the blokes yarn the time away. 1944 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 256 There is practically nothing to do but..yarn with your friends. a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 54 He does be yarnin with the brother above in the digs of a Sunday. 1972 M. Shadbolt Strangers & Journeys xi. 195 In the town, where men gathered to yarn on street corners. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds vi. 120 Their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books. †b. transitive. To recount or narrate. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell (story) [verb (transitive)] > tell story of record1340 to write upa1475 to story out1570 to story forth1591 story1610 yarn1840 1840 A. Russell Tour Austral. Colonies 40 One who can yarn the dangers of the deep so well. Derivatives ˈyarning n. and adj. Π 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Yarning or spinning a yarn, signifying to relate their various adventures, exploits, and escapes to each other. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand i. 8/2 Somehow or another I was al'ays a yarning sort of a customer. 1857 St. Leonard's Station Diary 14 May in L. R. C. MacFarlane Amuri (1946) iii. 125 Hanging round the station, yarning and sleeping. 1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship vii We speedily fell to yarning. 1916 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 493/1 Yarning seems to fill in the few leisure moments of the day. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar ii. 37 We were sitting at a café yarning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1000v.1819
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