单词 | heckling machine |
释义 | > as lemmasheckling machine General attributive (in sense 1), as heckling machine, heckling mill, heckling shop, etc. ΚΠ 1735 R. Ross Considerations Improvem. Linen Manuf. 11 The foreign Flax-dresser performs all his Heckling Work by Girls and Women. 1779 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize II. v. iv. 266 Dressed flax received from the heckling shop. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 349/2 Machinery for spinning tow..has a different heckling apparatus. 1863 W. Fairbairn Treat. Mills II. v. 197 Heckling machines are various, according to the quality of the flax. 1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 304 Many of the old ‘heckling-mills’ are now..abandoned. 1902 Jrnl. Federation Insurance Inst. 85 Any serious losses in connection with the Flax Mill premises most usually occurs in external Heckling Shops, Flax Stores,..and Yarn Drying Houses. 1972 N. B. Harte in D. T. Jenkins & K. G. Ponting Wool Textile Industry Great Brit. iv. 105 The introduction of heckling machines raised the output of potential good quality yarn. 2015 Sc. Express (Nexis) 11 Apr. 12 Hecklers were textile workers who combed fibres out of flax with ‘heckling combs’ to make linen. < as lemmas |
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