Pirn

Figure III. 9 shows an automatic Pirn change loom with under-pick motion.

Chapter 6 1983

Pirn tubes, along with items such as shuttles, pickers, picking-sticks, picking-bands, check-straps, loom-buffers etc. are also expendable to varying degrees.

Chapter 6 1983

Pirn -- one unintentional stride would deposit Christopher at Drummelzier, and another over the Cruik, and far away down Annan water!

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

_ -- Drank tea yesternight at Pirn, with Mr. Horseburgh.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

In October 1884 a Captain Bedford Clapperton Pirn, of the British Navy, reported in a confidential memorandum to the American Secretary of the Navy that de Lesseps’ dream of a canal at sea level was plainly impossible.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

Pirn’s only praise, after an extended tour of the work, was for “the gallant employees who have struggled manfully to carry out the wishes of their chief . . .”

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

In October 1884 a Captain Bedford Clapperton Pirn, of the British Navy, reported in a confidential memorandum to the American Secretary of the Navy that de Lesseps’ dream of a canal at sea level was plainly impossible.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

Pirn’s only praise, after an extended tour of the work, was for “the gallant employees who have struggled manfully to carry out the wishes of their chief . . .”

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005