Bobbin
['bɒbɪn] or ['bɑbɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound.
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Lyle
Definition
n. a small piece of wood on which thread is wound.—n. Bobb′inet a kind of fine netted lace made by machines.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of bobbins, denotes that important work will devolve on you, and your interests will be adversely affected if you are negligent in dispatching the same work.
Edited by Ben
Examples
- In 1823 Asa Arnold of Rhode Island invented a differential motion by which the velocity of the bobbin is kept uniform. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Wilson invented the rotary hook carrying a bobbin, which took the place of the reciprocating shuttle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Siemens’ patent also was the first embodiment of what is known as the bobbin armature. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Wilson also invented the rotating hook which catches the loop of the upper thread, and drops a disk bobbin through it to form the stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This loom, as usual, employs a single shuttle, but as the weft becomes exhausted another bobbin is automatically supplied to the shuttle without stopping the operation of the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Flying as fast as it does, when the shuttle becomes exhausted of yarn a late invention presents a new bobbin and a new supply of yarn to the shuttle without stopping the machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A bobbin, or coil of wire, B, surrounds one end of the magnet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A plant for the two-part method comprises two or more horizontal strand-forming machines, several bobbin frames, and a vertical laying-machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Formerly the bobbins on which the yarns were wound increased in speed as they were filled, thus endangering and often breaking the thread, and at all times increasing the tension. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The yarns, which are wound around bobbins, are drawn from them through perforated plates, these so placed that the yarns converge together and pass into a tube. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rovings extended from these bobbins to a reciprocating clasp held in the left hand of the workman, and thence extended to the spindles at the end of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Bobbins of Asa Arnold and the Ring Frame of Jenks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This armature consists of coils or bobbins of insulated wire, each section having its terminals connected with separate insulated plates on the hub, which plates are known as the commutator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An ingenious device connected with the winding of the roving yarns upon bobbins may be here noted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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