cotton-spinnern.
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a. A workman who spins cotton.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > one who > spins cotton
cotton-spinner1805
cotton-worker1826
cottoneer1843
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 481 James Heywood, æt. 33, by trade a cotton-spinner, was admitted into the Manchester Infirmary.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 34 Cotton-spinners..are generally well paid.
b. A master who employs workmen to spin cotton; the owner of a cotton mill.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > one who > spins cotton > master
cotton-spinner1788
1788 in Manchester Directory (15 persons so described).
1792 Brit. Patent 1879 (1856) 1 William Kelly, of Lanark..Cotton spinner.
1835 Sir R. Peel Speech in A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) III. 226 That the King had sent for the son of a cotton-spinner, that he might make him Prime Minister of England.
1852 Ld. Tennyson in Examiner 7 Feb. 85/1 We are not cotton-spinners all, But some love England and her honour yet.
2. Zoology. A sea-cucumber of the genus Holothuria.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > order Actinopoda > member of genus Holothuria
sea-slug1779
swallo1779
trepang1783
sea-swallow1802
bêche-de-mer1814
cotton-fish1851
cotton-spinner1908
1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 167 Bêche-de-mer... Termed also trepang, sea cucumber, sea slug, cotton spinner.
1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) iii. 65 It [sc. the trepang]..has the curious habit, when irritated, of shooting out masses of sticky white threads... Because of this habit, it is also called the cotton-spinner.
1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms vi. 81 The process [sc. extrusion of cuvierian organs] has given rise to the common name ‘cotton-spinner’ for Holothuria.
Derivatives
ˈcotton-spinnery n. a place where cotton is spun.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > place for > for spinning cotton
cotton-mill1791
cotton-spinnery1839
1839 W. Chambers Tour Holland 85/1 The spectacle of cotton-spinneries placed amidst rows of antique buildings, old gloomy churches, and monasteries.
ˈcotton-spinning n. and adj.
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1842 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 122 ‘Go’ (shrill'd the cotton-spinning chorus).
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. iv. 207 All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble.
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