What is a bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule called?
creel — (Spinning) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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