spinning frame

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Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within, she was reassured; for there was her familiar spinning frame, with its bobbins ready to be set to spinning and whirling; and the room was full of people, many as small as she.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

A great improvement on the spinning frame of the 18th century is the ring frame invented by Jenks.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

They knew how to use the spindles and were delighted to find the Russian spinning frame.

From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Addams, Jane

"I've seen a very good-looking young man by the name of Raymond Ironsyde wasting a deuce of a lot of his time by your spinning frame; and wasting your time, too."

From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden