Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pinion-gear that drives the doffer-cylinder on a cotton-carding machine.

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Examples

  • He held for the old ways, and each day presided at meals, his bonnet of blue on his head, broad as a barrow-wheel, and brought all the way from Kilmarnock.

    Patsy 1887

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