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The hulls have also considerable value as cattle food, and from them are obtained annually nearly a million bales of "linters," that is, short fibers of cotton which escaped the gin.
The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution Holland Thompson 1906
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This of course, was only detected when she and coleagues had to enter a nightclub, with the resultant strobe lighting doing the rest for the linters in there.
Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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However, when the United States declared itself part of WWII okay, Japan sort of declared it first, Elektro had no place in laboratories that had been turned over to the production of such military necessities as M1 helmet linters.
The ULTIMATE guide to ELEKTRO the Moto-Man, essay by M. Sweeney Lawless Kevin Maher 2010
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I would like to respond to the remarks of sugar magnolia, on posts 35, 39, 43, 46, and 70, whose choice of nom de plume is a travesty against Jerry and the boys, who would consider the remarks from that person as disingenuous at best, at worst, dishonest propaganda essentially because it is cherry-picking a few facts and attempting to weave from such linters whole broadcloths of misrepresentations.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way 2006
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I doubt it. and I said before you are taking linters of facts and weaving a broadcloth of deceit here.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way 2006
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Coffee and cacao processing Husks Cotton seed processing Hulls, linters
Chapter 5 1979
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We also have an affiliated company in Mexico which has just started production of purified cotton linters cellulose.
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This consisted of a pyramid containing cotton-seed hulls, meal linters, crude oil, surrounded by commercial packages of meal and hulls, refined oils and lard compounds manufactured from cotton seed.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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"Leantos," or "linters," were sometimes built by the side of the building for use for storage.
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Shipment volume, however, did decline 4% as the company finished rebuilding inventories at its Foley mill and specialty cotton fibers shipments were negatively impacted by limited availability and high prices of cotton linters.
Forbes.com: News Zacks.com 2011
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So-called "Linters", which take a set of rules, look at your code, and highlight places where you haven't followed the rules properly.
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