ring spinning

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A method of spinning fibres to make a yarn. The roving is first attenuated by using drawing rollers, then spun and wound around a rotating spindle contained within an independently rotating ring flyer.

Word forms

ring spinning

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