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Definition of Knubs
1. n. pl. Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.
Definition of Knubs
1. Noun. Waste silk formed when winding off the threads from a cocoon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knubs
1. knub [n] - See also: knub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knubs
Literary usage of Knubs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"Husks and knubs in the gum. 2. Husks and knubs discharged of the gum. 3. ...
Dressed husks and knubs. 6. Dressed China gum waste. Waste silk as imported is ..."
2. Silk Throwing and Waste Silk Spinning by Hollins Rayner (1903)
"knubs, however, are the long wastes produced in the filatures where the raw silk is
... These knubs are particularly in request by the continental spinners. ..."
3. Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: A Synopsis of Progress Made in by Peter Lund Simmonds (1873)
"Hu»ks and knubs in the gum. 2. Husks and knubs discharged of the gum. 3.
Dressed waste, discharged ... Dressed husks and knubs. 6. Dressed China gum waste. ..."
4. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1846)
"Now he (Lord Stanley) said that, whatever they might do with those knubs and
husks, it had nothing whatever to do in the calculation of the increase in the ..."
5. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1824)
"... the several Duties of Customs now due and payable upon the Importation of Raw
Silk, and of knubs or Husks of Silk, and of Waste or Floss Silk, ..."
6. The Chemical News (1860)
"silk reeled off, and they are called knubs and busks, which still yield silk ...
Even in China after they have taken up the knubs and husks they take the ..."
7. Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in by Peter Lund Simmonds (1862)
""We import yearly about 20000 cwts. of raw knubs or husks and waste of silk, ...
\Vhen the gum has been discharged from the husks and knubs, these are ..."
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