spinning-machine

In a third a wild cat crouches among the spindles of a spinning-machine and spits at the unwanted intruder.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

When Hargreaves, the Lancashire carpenter, invented his spinning-machine, a village wit called it a "jenny."

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

From Brindley, the constructor of the earliest great canal, to Joseph Gillott, the inventor of the very steel pen with which this book is written; from Arkwright the barber who fashioned the first spinning-machine, to Crompton the weaver, whose mule gave rise to the mighty

Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen 1873

Logic without revelation is like a spinning-machine without any cotton, busy drawing out nothing.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

This was greatly stimulated by the important inventions of tools, machines, and engines, made towards the close of last century, the products of which -- more especially of the steam-engine and spinning-machine -- so largely increased the wealth of the nation.

The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867

Like other self-taught men of the same bias, he had already been devoting his spare time to the invention of a perpetual-motion machine; and from that the transition to a spinning-machine was easy.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

Cromford, in Derbyshire, turned by a water-wheel, from which circumstance the spinning-machine came to be called the water - frame.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

A working instrument-maker gave us the steam-engine; a barber, the spinning-machine; a weaver, the mule;

Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858

Many attempts were made about that time to invent a spinning-machine, and our barber determined to launch his little bark on the sea of invention with the rest.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

It was a sort of monotonous purring, like that made by a spinning-machine, or a very large tom-cat; and like the latter, it was prolonged and continuous.

Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850