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Definition of Rovings
1. roving [n] - See also: roving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rovings
Literary usage of Rovings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide: A Practical by Robert H. Baird (1851)
"TO TRY rovings BY THE QUADRANT. Put forty threads or a half cut in a quadrant
balance, and whatever they size, divided by 2, will give the number of cuts, ..."
2. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"UA and B are the hand-cards and bobbins of rovings. card was drawn out and slightly
twisted into a porous cord, called a roving; at the second, ..."
3. Narrative of an Expedition to the Sources of St. Peter's River, Lake by William Hypolitus Keating, Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say, Lewis David von Schweinitz, James Edward Calhoun, Joseph Lovell (1824)
"PETER'S RIVER, CHAPTER I. The party leave Lake Travers. They fall in with large
herds of buffalo. Observations upon the rovings of this animal. ..."
4. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1867)
"To remedy the evil above described, when untwisted rovings are used, he causes the
... through which the rovings 1672 Patenta/ 1835 X! ..."
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