bobbin

Example Sentences

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The southeast space had lots of cloth fragments, along with bobbins and loom weights.

From Science Daily

The large courtyard was sunlit and humming with busyness, as twelve women sat at large frames making bobbin lace.

From Literature

Threads and wool of all colors, bobbins, tools and spinning wheels are everywhere.

From Seattle Times

At 13, he worked in an Allegheny cotton mill, changing bobbins 6 days a week, 12 hours a day.

From Seattle Times

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.

From Washington Post