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Definition of Filatory
1. n. A machine for forming threads.
Definition of Filatory
1. Noun. (obsolete) A machine for forming threads. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Filatory
1. a machine which makes threads [n FILATORIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filatory
Literary usage of Filatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"At one filatory there were upwards of thirty or forty young men engaged in winding
silk. They were crowded together in the most insanitary way, ..."
2. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by H. C. V. Leibbrandt, Jan van Riebeeck (1906)
"... though it pleased the Almighty, when the Company's silk filatory was burnt
down, also to lay his house and everything it contained in ashes, ..."
3. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Requesten (memorials) 1715-1806 by Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Archives, South African Library (1906)
"... the Company's silk filatory was burnt down, also to lay his house and everything
it contained in ashes, so that he was rendered incapable of carrying ..."
4. The Long White Mountian: Or, A Journey in Manchuria, with Some Account of by Henry Evan Murchison James (1888)
"... cave—A silk filatory —Invasion by pirates—Firewood plantations—Oysters—Ancient
forts—Tiger Mountain—Port Arthur—Naval and ..."
5. The Long White Mountan: Or, A Journey in Manchuria, with Some Account of the by Henry Evan Murchison James (1888)
"At the mouth of the ravine which leads to the cave was a silk filatory. The district
is noted .for the production of tusser silk, a name derived from the ..."
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