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Raising :: Raising (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning..

Turbination :: Turbination (n.) The act of spinning or whirling, as a top..

Flyer :: Flyer (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11..

Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning..

Technology :: Technology (n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc..

English :: English (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.

Tourn :: Tourn (n.) A spinning wheel.

Rove :: Rove (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning..

Spin :: Spinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spi.

Throstle :: Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..

Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..

Spin :: Spin (n.) The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle..

Hardspun :: Hardspun (a.) Firmly twisted in spinning.

Distaff :: Distaff (n.) The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand..

Rock :: Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning..

Spinner :: Spinner (n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine..

English :: English (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion..

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

Spinnies :: Spinning () a. & n. from Spin.

Piecer :: Piecer (n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

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