Definition of Thread maker

1. Noun. Someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads).

Exact synonyms: Spinner, Spinster
Generic synonyms: Maker, Shaper
Derivative terms: Spin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thread Maker

thraw
thraward
thrawart
thrawed
thrawing
thrawl
thrawls
thrawn
thrawnly
thraws
thread
thread-fish
thread blight
thread count
thread counts
thread maker (current term)
thread mode
thread necromancy
thread pool
thread pool pattern
thread pool patterns
thread pools
thread snake
thread the needle
threadability
threadable
threadbare
threadbareness
threaded
threaden

Literary usage of Thread maker

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

1. Register of Interments in the Greyfriars Buryingground, Edinburgh, 1658-1700by Edinburgh (Scotland), Kirk of the Greyfriars, Greyfriars' Churchyard, Henry Paton, Scottish Record Society by Edinburgh (Scotland), Kirk of the Greyfriars, Greyfriars' Churchyard, Henry Paton, Scottish Record Society (1902)
"1698 John, thread maker, a child ; west laigh 25 Mar. 1697 ohn, thread maker, a child ; Morton stone 11 June 1697 ohn, servitor to Andrew Caddell, ..."

2. The Great Industries of the United States: Being an Historical Summary of by Horace Greeley (1872)
"... TRIUMPH OF THE THREAD-MAKER'g ART. — INCOMPREHENSIBLE FIGURES. — THE DISTAFF — THE OLD SPINNING-WHEEL IN THE TIME OF ..."

3. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"... and for other purposes. \VIRE-SIEVE, a bolter or strainer with a wire bottom. WIRE-thread maker, a manufacturer of the flattened gilt wire with which ..."

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