Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for picking, shaking, and blowing baled cotton, and forming it into a fleecy lap.
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Here also is the bow for bowing the cotton, the original cotton-opener and cleaner.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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