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Yarn :: Yarn (n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like..

Tease :: Tease (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax..

Dodder :: Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it..

Harl :: Harl (n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp..

Comber :: Comber (n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc..

Cretonne :: Cretonne (n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

Tewtaw :: Tewtaw (v. t.) To beat; to break, as flax or hemp..

Retting :: Retting (n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret..

Comb :: Comb (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc..

Toadflax :: Toadflax (n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted..

Carder :: Carder (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc..

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle..

Ret :: Ret (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment..

Tow :: Tow (n.) The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle..

Dewretting :: Dewretting (n.) Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine..

Auburn :: Auburn (a.) Flaxen-colored.

Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch..

Stuped :: Stupe (v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

Grass :: Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc..

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

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