| 单词 | spun yarn |
| 例句 | Though he famously spun yarns in more than a dozen original one-man shows, some of them also committed to film, Gray was much more than a raconteur. 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Spalding Gray at his eloquent, daring best in documentary 2011-01-13T21:08:03Z Like him, you the reader can’t wait to escape; yet you can no more walk away from Mr. King’s tightly spun yarn than Paul can walk away from his captor. Review: In ‘Misery,’ With Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, the Ghost of Productions Past 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z She set her simple loom up against the wall of her adobe courtyard and began weaving finely spun yarn through the strands of the warp, adding to an axsu that was nearly finished. In the Mountains of Bolivia, Encounters With Magic 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z For example, in one nine-month period, the numerous Rhode Island women who spun yarn into cloth on hand looms in their homes produced a total of thirty-four thousand yards of fabrics of different types. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Women spun yarn, made clothes, prepared food for storage, and made soap and candles, along with caring for the children in the family. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Parkdale Mills, which produces spun yarn and cotton products, will build a new spinning facility in Honduras and invest $150 million. VP Harris secures new investment from companies like Pepsico, Cargill for Central America strategy 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Nike said it did not source products from the region and confirmed with its suppliers that textiles or spun yarn used were not from the region. Here’s what foreign brands have to say about Xinjiang 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Nike issued a statement saying its suppliers do not use textiles or spun yarn from the region. Sanctions on China’s top cotton supplier weave a tangled web for fashion brands 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Spinster This occupational term originally meant simply someone, usually a woman but possibly a man, who spun yarn or thread. Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language | David Shariatmadari 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z They smoked their pipes, "spun yarns," and laughed cheerily, as if their lives had not just now been in peril, and as if no imminent dangers lay at their door. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Indeed, he left Anthea at the tiller while he went into the saloon to look for a piece of spun yarn which Valentine kept in one of the lockers. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Nor did I dream of danger even when seated of a night under the bright stars at the fo’c’stle head, while the men spun yarn after yarn of the awful dangers they had come through. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Why, nowadays they could no more do the things we did than they could pitch a ball o’ spun yarn ’twixt here and Jericho. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z He was skilfully unwinding a skein of spun yarn which he held over his two bare feet, while at the same time he rolled the ball deftly with his stubby, jointless fingers. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z FLANNEL, a woollen stuff of various degrees of weight and fineness, made usually from loosely spun yarn. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z “Line” spun yarns used in cretonne and furniture textiles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Afterward, Wingfield spun yarns for us—as he has a habit of doing when he can get an audience of more than one person. The King of Arcadia Drew, panting and limping, leaving a trail of blood wherever he stepped, secured some lengths of spun yarn and tied both mutineers hand and foot before he gave any attention to the murmuring prisoners. Doubloons—and the Girl In that second buckboard the fates laid plans, spun yarns, and rearranged many things. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country The method generally adopted is to spin a much finer yarn and to make the finished thread by doubling several of the fine spun yarns together in order to form the thicker final thread. The Story of the Cotton Plant Paulette Brown pulled out ten feet of spun yarn from under her coat; and if you come to think of it, it was a funny thing for a girl to have. The La Chance Mine Mystery The end may be lashed down or seized to the standing part with a piece of spun yarn; this adds to its security and prevents slipping. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition A small mat faced with rope-yarn or spun yarn, which is used in a vessel's rigging to prevent chafing. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A body of riggers were at work in parcelling and serving with spun yarn the eyes of the shrouds. With Cochrane the Dauntless And not only so, but the King told his merchants to buy spun yarn from neighbouring countries so that the people might be able to weave, even though they could not spin. The Sleeping Beauty As I spoke I took up a large ball of spun yarn, and placing a splinter on it, I advanced the piece of wood gradually until he saw the whole of it. A Yacht Voyage Round England Ross struggled to his feet, and, though still weak and nerveless, found some spun yarn in a locker, with which he tied the unconscious victim's hands behind his back, and lashed his ankles together. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility A kind of eye-splice, in which the ends are scraped down, tapered, passed oppositely, marled, and served over with spun yarn. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. This is done in order to secure the very best fibers calculated to give the strongest and best results in the spun yarn. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades "Get a piece of spun yarn out o' the booby-hatch and take it up wi' you," continued the mate. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea What the shirt is to the collar, that is the glorious, tough old Northern saga, or maritime spun yarn, to the canard, or duck. The Gypsies Even in large cities nearly all women spun yarn and thread, all could knit, and many had hand-looms to weave cloth at home. Home Life in Colonial Days It is used in serving the rigging, binding the spun yarn more firmly about it than could be done by hand. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. I frequently sat in it at night with the man on duty, who expounded the lighting apparatus to me, or “spun yarns.” Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories “He never said anything about being in irons when he spun yarns about adventures.” The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens The maiden concealed the three spinners from the Queen, but showed her the heaps of spun yarn whenever she came, and received no end of praise for it. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Then came the spinning-jenny, which spun yarn with a hundred spindles on each machine. Home Life in Colonial Days To prevent chafing, a thick mat is woven from strands of old rope, spun yarn, or foxes, containing each a greater or lesser number of rope-yarns, in proportion to the intended mat to be made. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. This oiling is generally known as wool batching, and before the spun yarns or woven fabrics can be dyed it is necessary to remove it. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics The major's sister had at the same time a distaff which often spun yarn for her without any one handling it. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Meanwhile the indefatigable Overland spun yarn after yarn of the road and range, and rolled innumerable cigarettes with one hand, much to Winthrop's amusement. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail The crippled boom was soon lashed with pieces of spun yarn, and the damage thus temporarily repaired. Ralph Granger's Fortunes To secure the falls of a tackle together by means of spun yarn, rope yarn, or any lashing wound round them. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Then the man in the stern folded the letter in two, and tied a piece of spun yarn round it, to which he attached a piece of stone, and tossed it to me. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles As the big seaman deftly worked with iron hook and right hand, he spun yarns for the delectation of his mates. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India It is made up from the leaf, and rolled up in spun yarn. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force He lashed the three together with a few bits of spun yarn from his pocket, making a mast nearly ten feet long. Ralph Granger's Fortunes He must study political economy and the value of labour and its relations to capital and the market value of dry spun yarns. The Spinners I think that Ally Merton's clothes on me, and his correct tie, made my good impression, as much as my after-talk around the fireplace, where I spun yarns of my strange life and adventures. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative About midway along the crooked, narrow street of Stromness stood the one house of entertainment of the port--Gray's Inn--where the wind-bound sailors and idle fishermen usually regaled themselves and spun yarns. The Pilots of Pomona Serving is merely wrapping the rope with spun yarn, marline, or other small stuff, C, Fig. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Every farmhouse had spinning-wheels and one loom or several on which the women of the family spun yarn and wove cloth for the family wardrobe. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution One afternoon a pilot from the front line told of a captured German Albatros, which he spun yarns about for an hour. The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps She carded the wool and spun yarn on the old spinning wheel. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives A little farther an open cupboard was noticed with a wisp of spun yarn hanging out from it—inflammable stuff, quite untouched. Sir George Tressady — Volume II He spun yarns to frighten me, but I am a brave fellow and he is jealous of me. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 The mother spun yarn when she was able, for she was often sick, and Rosy did all she could to help. The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School This we did, after which he made fast a piece of salt meat to a bit of spun yarn, and bent this on to the boat hook. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" They were the adventures related to him by his Mohammedan bearer, Khalil Samad, who had sat on his heels many a night before the young sahib's fire, and spun yarns of marvelous variety. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill "Wife," said he, "it is really a shame that the spun yarn should lie there all entangled!" Household Tales by Brothers Grimm We talked old times and spun yarns, and the tide went out in the jug consider'ble sight faster than 'twas ebbing on the flats. Cape Cod Stories They spun yarns to this unworthy devil, too. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) His wife made soap and candles, spun yarn and dyed it, wove cloth and made the clothes the family wore, to mention only a few of the tasks of the women of the eighteenth century. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest And he led the way down to the waist, and thence by the booby hatch to the gloom of the 'tween-decks, where the air was rank with the smell of tar and spun yarn. Captain Blood Phylo now placed this by her side, full of fine spun yarn, and a distaff charged with violet coloured wool was laid upon the top of it. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original Then he spun yarns about what him and Brown did when they was out West together. Cape Cod Stories The East Indians, with only the crudest machinery, spun yarn and wove cloth as diaphanous as the best appliances of the present day have been able to produce. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest |
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