Untwisted
[ʌn'twistid]
Examples
- 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.
- In the bridge at Geneva, built in 1822, ropes of untwisted wire, bound together, were used, and some fifteen years later stranded wire ropes were employed in the Harz mines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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