(n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
(n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
(n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
(n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
(n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last December, while the rest of my office was settling into its Christmas lunch, I was singing “Wind the Bobbin Up”.
(2) Then he got A Mystery Illness and has been bobbins, nicking the ball off Oscar’s feet and denying him a hat-trick against Swansea to make matters worse at the weekend.
(3) The Reuter-Bobbin tube had a much greater rate of plugging, compared to the other tubes.
(4) It's the star attraction of Georgia's beloved Redneck Games , alongside events such as the Armpit Serenade and Bobbin' For Pigs' Feet.
(5) A filamentous zone develops proximally in the cells concurrently with hemidesmosomes, which assume the typical larval bobbin form as the skeins occupy more of the cytoplasm.
(6) At nearly three times the price of their previous record transfer Andrey Arshavin , Gooners can at least relax safe in the knowledge he can't possibly end up being three times as bobbins.
(7) Instead of an afternoon of drunken shouting I was sitting with a circle of new mums at a music group in our local community centre belting out an irritating song to a room of babies who have no clue about bobbins, or any other part of the textile industry.
(8) This condition persists into the postmetamorphic stage when the figures of Eberth and the bobbin-type hemidesmosomes have gone.
(9) Even if it does mean joining in with the mums on “Wind the Bobbin Up”.
(10) With the exception of the Reuter Bobbin, all mean air conduction thresholds in functioning tubes were below 20 dB.
(11) Previous results demonstrated that nimodipine, an L-type of Ca2+ channel antagonist, abolished the negative summating potential (SP) recorded from anesthetized guinea pigs (Bobbin et al., 1990), suggesting that Ca2+ is involved in generation of the negative SP.
(12) The Suquet-Hoyer canal was surrounded like a sheath by numerous thin adrenergic fibers, which were distributed like threads around a bobbin.
(13) The eight tubes used in the survey were the Shepard, Exmoor, Bobbin, Armstrong, Paparella, Shah, Arrow, and collar button.
(14) Two other machines only delivered hypoxic mixtures if the cyclopropane bobbins were removed from their seats and the flow controls opened.
(15) There follows detailed considerations of the structure and structural properties of the aorta and its supports ("bobbins").
(16) In one machine the bobbin did not prevent back flow and the hypoxic mixture occurred when the cyclopropane flow control was left open.
(18) Progress in preventive measures depends on better knowledge of the metabolism of the "bobbins".
(19) "I can put ministers on the spot, I think," he says self-deprecatingly, searching his rucksack for a copy of Hansard and his 1985 private members bill, during a rest-stop in an ancient patch of silver birch, planted as coppice for making textile mill bobbins.
Doffer
Definition:
(n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the natural doffers, similar relationships were found, together with variations associated with the type of diet.