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Definition of Spin-dry
1. Verb. Dry (clothes) by spinning and making use of centrifugal forces.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spin-dry
Literary usage of Spin-dry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports and Notes of Cases on Letters Patent for Inventions [1601-1843] by Thomas Webster, Great Britain Courts (1844)
"Mr. Kay's was a new machine, it will spin only macerated flax, it will not spin
dry flax, or wool, or cotton. If the fibre he longer than the ratch it ..."
2. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1887)
"Why, if these wheels must be at that distance to spin dry flax, and those wheels
must be at this distance to spin wet flax—if taking the wet fibre to that ..."
3. Reports and Notes of Cases on Letters Patent for Inventions by Thomas Webster (1844)
"Why, gentlemen, if these wheels must be at that distance to spin dry fiai, and
those wheels must be at this distance to spin wet flax— if taking the wet ..."
4. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1874)
"To spin dry wool you need not toil, I've plenty Whale and Florence OiL Set by
your wheels, your tongs, and poker And paint your nooks with Yellow Ochre. ..."
5. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1874)
"... I have good Pearl and Comby Ashes ; Should you incline to wash by night I've
Candles, too, will shew you %ht To spin dry wool you need not toil, ..."
6. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"To spin dry wool you need not toO. I've plenty Whale and Florence OH. Set by your
wheels, your tons:?, ..."
7. Law Reports of Patent Cases: 1602-1842 by Great Britain Courts (1851)
"Why, Gentlemen, if these wheels must be at that distance to spin dry flax, and
those wheels must be at this distance to spin wet ..."
8. Textiles and Clothing by Ellen Beers McGowan, Charlotte Augusta Waite, A. (1919)
"In the English system the wool is oiled before combing, but the French spin dry.
The shrinkage is less in the French system and the yarn is fuzzier owing to ..."
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