Definition of Spinning frame

1. Noun. Spinning machine that draws, twists, and winds yarn.

Terms within: Spindle
Generic synonyms: Spinning Machine

Definition of Spinning frame

1. Noun. a machine that draws and twists fibres and then winds it onto spools or spindles ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinning Frame

spinnerettes
spinneries
spinners
spinnerule
spinnerules
spinnery
spinnet
spinnets
spinney
spinneys
spinnier
spinnies
spinniest
spinning
spinning disk nebuliser
spinning frame (current term)
spinning jennies
spinning jenny
spinning machine
spinning mule
spinning mules
spinning rod
spinning top
spinning tops
spinning wheel
spinning wheels
spinnings
spinny
spino-
spino-adductor reflex

Literary usage of Spinning frame

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The amount of twist given to the thread at the spinning frame vanes from 1-5 to 2 tunes the square root of the count. In wet spinning the general sequence ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The spinning frame does not differ in principle from the throstle spinning machine used in the ... 15 times on roving frame, and 10 times on spinning frame, ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This business he gave up about 1767 in order to devote himself to the construction of the spinning frame. The spinning jenny, which was patented by James ..."

4. Cotton Spinning: Its Development, Principles, and Practice by Richard Marsden (1888)
"Slow acceptance as a spinning frame.—The Booth-Sawyer spindle; ... —The ring spinning frame for warp yarn ; description; process of spinning; the traveller; ..."

5. Yarn and Cloth Making: An Economic Study; a College and Normal Schools Text by Mary Lois Kissell (1918)
"Wet spinning frame. 120. Section wet spinning ring frame. ... Section wet spinning frame. 178.' Part of ramie wet spinning frame. Clapham, p. 50. ..."

6. The Economic History of the United States by Ernest Ludlow Bogart (1912)
"... as the motive power to drive the new machinery, made it possible to locate mills near ARKWRIGHT'S FIRST spinning frame Richard Arkwright improved upon ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The spinning frame.— This is the machine that made Richard Arkwright famous, it being a development of the spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves. ..."

8. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1909)
"The throstle spinning frame was to the last no way different in principle and but little in ... It has been superseded by the ring spinning frame Fig. ..."

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