noun. The act or process of spinning, drawing, or twisting into threads.

noun. The act or process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.

noun. A reel used in drawing silk from cocoons.

noun. An establishment where silk is reeled.

noun. A forming into threads; the reeling of silk from cocoons.

noun. A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; a filatory.

noun. An establishment for reeling silk.

noun. A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.

noun. A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

noun. The process of drawing fibres into threads, especially the process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.

noun. A spool or bobbin used for the above.

noun. A place where silk is reeled onto spools.

noun. a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread

"In one appalling calamity, a hundred women died in a fire that engulfed a silk filature because the owner had locked them in from the outside."

bobbin  reel  spool  

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