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Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.
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A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.
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A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
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A fine cord or narrow braid.
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That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
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A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
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A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise.
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The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
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Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
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A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.
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An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
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The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
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An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
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Work woven with bobbins.
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To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
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Hearty; in good spirits.
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The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
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A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
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A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
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