noun. A spool or reel that holds thread or yarn for spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, or making lace.

noun. Narrow braid formerly used as trimming.

To wind on bobbins or spools, as thread.

noun. A reel or spool for holding thread.

noun. Hence Either of the two spool-shaped parts of an electromagnet, consisting of a central core of soft iron wound around with a considerable length of fine insulated copper wire.

noun. A narrow tape or small cord of cotton or linen.

noun. A hank of Russian flax, consisting of 6, 9, or 12 heads, according to the quality.

noun. A machine which takes the slubbing from the first frame and converts it into a coarse yarn.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

noun. A fine cord or narrow braid.

noun. 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.

noun. a roving machine.

noun. lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.

noun. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.

noun. In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.

noun. a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound

""I'm what they call a bobbin-girl -- I tie the threads on the bobbins when they are empty.""

bobbin and fly-frame  

bobbinless  bobbinlike  

winder  

filature  shuttle  

Robin  robin  

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