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Wire :: Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel..

Piecer :: Piecer (n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

Lingel :: Lingel (n.) A shoemaker's thread.

Coppin :: Coppin (n.) A cop of thread.

Spermist :: Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body..

Fibrilla :: Fibrilla (n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril..

Line :: Line (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line..

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc..

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..

Fine :: Fine (superl.) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread..

Seton :: Seton (n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed..

Distaff :: Distaff (n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand..

Gather :: Gather (n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker..

Chekmak :: Chekmak (n.) A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven..

Torchon Lace :: Torchon lace () a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery..

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..

Weaving :: Weaving (n.) The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth in a loom by the union or intertexture of threads..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread..

Byssaceous :: Byssaceous (a.) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algae..

Clew :: Clew (n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread..

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