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They are the slubber, intermediate, roving,--and fine or jack frame-fine, and the function of each is to draw and twist Illustration: ROVING DEPARTMENT 1.— Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
As in the slubber, intermediate, and roving frames, the rove is taken from two bobbins for one spindle Spinning.= In the manufacture of single ply yarn the final process is that of spinning, which consists in drawing out the cotton roving to the required size, and giving it the proper amount of twist necessary to make the yarn of the required strength.— Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
(Old eds. "yas 75] A monosyllable 76] Some eds. give "them, then they burned as blood 77] Approaching catastrophe 78] Some eds. "and 79] Used transitively 80] Some eds. "Leanders 81] Shakespeare uses the verb "slubber" in the sense of "perform in a slovenly manner" (_Merchant of Venice_, ii.— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
I think a physician and a banker: a physician, because he know's a man's very heart, and when the fits of an ague will return; tho' by the way, I hate them mortally; for by their good will I should have nothing but slubber-slops: And a banker, because he'll find out a piece of brass money, tho' plated with silver There are also brute beasts, sheep and oxen, laborious in their kind: Oxen, to whom we are beholding for the bread we eat; and sheep, for the wooll, that makes us so fine.— The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
With my vain breath I will not seek to slubber— The Merry Devil
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