2. Verb. (third-person singular of slub) ¹
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Definition of Slubs
1. slub [v] - See also: slub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slubs
Literary usage of Slubs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analysis of Woven Fabrics by Aldred Farrer Barker, Eber Midgley (1914)
"First, from the back of the cloth, taking out all slubs, straws, etc., drawing
out and replacing thick warp threads and picks of weft and opening the knots. ..."
2. Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess (1914)
"Women have slubs innumerable, and for the most part say nothing about them, unless
they want ... Shop-girls are not allowed to have slubs. "/ have a slub! ..."
3. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1900)
"It also collects lint and dirt which is caught up on the yarn, forming loose
slubs or bunches. Machines supplied with this tension are commonly used for a ..."
4. The First Century of the Republic: A Review of American Progress by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Between the two, with divisions for the slubs, was a clasp, which was managed by
the left hand, to bring such a pressure upon the roving as the required ..."
5. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers (1900)
"It also collects lint and dirt which is caught up on the yarn, forming loose
slubs or bunches. Machines supplied with this tension are commonly used for a ..."
6. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"The Rolls are afterwards drawn out into ROVES, or slubs, by what is called ...
and these slubs, already slightly twisted, are further drawn out and spun by ..."
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