Lexicographical Neighbors of Piecings
Literary usage of Piecings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1899)
"It would be this, that he could not rely on the piecings made at the mill.
Unless the piecings are properly made there might be no end of trouble all ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"It is advisable to see that short piecings are made and that the piecings are
not too hard to draw out in the draft rolls. ..."
3. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1850)
"The application of a blast of air across the lowest of the two rubbing aprons at
the point where the piecings pass to the bobbin. 2. ..."
4. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1890)
"... from the speed that the spindles will bear, to the speed with which operatives
can make good piecings of yarn broken in the operation of spinning. ..."
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