1894 A. S. Robertson 54 Seventy years of pirn-winding.
1901 8 Feb. 2/1 ‘Pirn-winding’, an accessory trade to hand-loom weaving, will, no doubt, die with the present workers.
1961 12 290 The calculations concerned all the weaving mills of the cotton industry and considered the looms, cross winding and pirn winding machines, dressing machines and warpers.