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Definition of Spinners
1. spinner [n] - See also: spinner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinners
Literary usage of Spinners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1856)
"Cartwright and Warners, spinners and Manufacturers of Patent Angola Hosiery,
&e., Loughborough. John Foster and Son, Worsted spinners and Manufacturers, ..."
2. Trades' Societies and Strikes by Committee on Trades' Societies (1860)
"These orders were intended to apply to the whole of the manufacturing districts,
but in fact, except the spinners already on strike in the neighbourhood of ..."
3. Protection and Prosperity: An Account of Tariff Legislation and Its Effect by George Boughton Curtiss (1896)
"$5-76 to $6.00 4.32 to 6.24 5-28 6.00' With reference to the wages of cotton
spinners in 1892, the Labor Commission says: "Very little evidence was given ..."
4. Circuit Journeys by Henry Cockburn Cockburn (1888)
"I was engaged with the famous case of the cotton-spinners at Edinburgh,1 and only
got to Glasgow on the evening of the 9th. Lord Medwyn took the first day ..."
5. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 by Spencer Walpole (1890)
"The Lancashire cotton spinners struck work; and their strike is memorable ...
The cotton spinners, it was argued, had suffered less than any other operative ..."
6. Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Cotton Exchanges by United States Bureau of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith (1908)
"CHANGE IN QUALITY OF COTTON USED BY MOST spinners.—One of the principal arguments
upon which the exclusion of low grades from contract delivery is favored ..."
7. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 by Spencer Walpole (1913)
"The Lancashire cotton spinners struck work; and their strike is memorable ...
The cotton spinners, it was argued, had suffered less than any other operative ..."
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