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Also noyl.
[Of obscure origin.]
pl. and sing. The short pieces and knots of wool combed out of the long staple.
pl.1623–4Act 21 Jas. I, c. 18 §3 Many ill disposed persons..have used to mixe and putte Flockes and Thrumes and alsoe Noiles and Haires and other deceivable thinges into..broad Woollen Cloths. 1793Spec. Wright & Hawksley's Patent No. 1956. 2 A circular brush..revolving quick to take the noils off the teeth. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 150 The noyls, or short refuse wool, which remains entangled among the teeth, being removed. 1872Daily News 26 Mar., Noils and brokes are in steady demand, and prices are firm. 1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 94 The very short fibres of wool..fall over naturally into a box or can placed to receive them. This short wool is called ‘noils’.
sing.1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 159 The fragments collect in the instrument and form only a noil, an article of no use in the fabrication of worsteds. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iv. 127 This, under the name of noyl or noil, is afterwards carded and spun into coarse woollen yarn. 1894Times 12 Mar. 13/5 The machine which separates the long fibres for fine spinning from the waste or ‘noil’, which is used for spinning heavy numbers.
attrib.1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 104 The noil knives in the small circles. Ibid. 109 Noil knots are dragged over the pin points. |