= warping-post n.

A hooked implement used for twisting strands of hay, straw, or hair into coarse rope.

= warping-post n.

Nautical. Line composed of two or more rope-yarns not laid but simply twisted together by a winch or by hand. Also in combinations, as spun-yarn major…

Nautical. A small machine used for making ropes and spun-yarn; †the quantity of yarn so made.

Rope-making. A stick used as a lever in woolding; also, a workman operating this. By extension applied also to other similar levers (see quots. 1863…

Rope-making. A machine for making rope or yarn by twisting together the component strands which are drawn through concentric holes on a rotating…

see quot. 1845.

Rope-making. (Also laying-top.) See quots.

a block used by rope-makers in warping off yarn.

Rope-making. A cylindrical piece of wood furnished with a hook on which the ends of the fibre are hung in spinning.

Any similar device on which another material, as paper, rope, fabric, etc., is wound during production or processing.

a strong post used in warping rope-yarn.

in Rope-making, each of the hooks of a ‘whirl’ (see whirl, n. 1c).

a hook to which strands of cordage are fastened in the process of tempering; also attributive.

Manufacturing Technology. Any of several machines used in the preparation of flax, hemp, sisal, etc., for spinning, esp. by producing a sliver (sliver…

Rope-making. A rotating disc with concentric holes through which strands are drawn and twisted in the making of rope or yarn. Cf. register, n.1 13.

Also wimbel, dialect wimbrel. An implement for twisting together strands (esp. of straw) to make rope for tying up hay-trusses, fleeces, etc.

A device by which cordage is made smooth and uniform.

(See quot. 1875.)