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Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A particular quantity of yarn.

Clue :: Clue (n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself..

End :: End (n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..

Heer :: Heer (n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.

Pirn :: Pirn (n.) 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..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).

Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..

Graft :: Graft (n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards..

Bay Yarn :: Bay yarn () Woolen yarn.

Rope-yarn :: Rope-yarn (n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

Jersey :: "Jersey (n.) The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool..

Waistcoating :: Waistcoating (n.) A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used..

Thrum :: Thrum (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Abb :: Abb (n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb..

Twill :: Twill (v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn..

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