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spindleage|ˈspɪnd(ə)lɪdʒ| [f. spindle n. + -age.] The total number of cotton spindles in use at a given time and in a specified area.
1921A. S. Wade Cotton Spinning 15 The loss o[f] spindleage due to the reduction of the working week. 1954R. Robson et al. in A. F. W. Coulson Man. Cotton Spinning I. i. 6 By 1928 the number of spindles had risen to just over 165 million but this was to represent the peak world spindleage. 1972C. H. Lee Cotton Enterprise ii. 16 The spindleage of the trade grew from 1·7 million to four or five million between the early 1780's and 1812. |