| 单词 | piecening |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈpiecening ˈpiecening n. the action or task of joining broken threads in spinning. Now rare. ΚΠ 1831 C. T. Thackrah Effects of Arts on Health 74 Preparation of Wool... Tucking, Scribbling, (as Slubbing), Carding and Piecening. 1843 Penny Mag. Suppl. June 243/2 It was Whitehead of Bury who introduced the plan of ‘piecening’, by which much time is saved in spinning cotton. 1932 P. Bentley Inheritance iii. ii. 260 Jonathan could not remember what it was... But it was something about piecening. < as lemmas |
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