Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pinion-gear that drives the doffer-cylinder on a cotton-carding machine.
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Examples
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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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