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bobbin
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The southeast space had lots of cloth fragments, along with bobbins and loom weights.
Threads and wool of all colors, bobbins, tools and spinning wheels are everywhere.
At 13, he worked in an Allegheny cotton mill, changing bobbins 6 days a week, 12 hours a day.
A few days later, antislavery members lined up behind the American Party’s “Bobbin Boy” Banks, who as a boy worked in a textile factory carrying bobbins of thread to the women who operated the looms.
You get to peek over the lacemaker’s shoulder: She is making bobbin lace, one of the most expensive commodities of early modern Europe.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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