Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine-made cotton netting, consisting of parallel threads which form the warp, upon which two systems of oblique threads are laid in such a way that each of the oblique threads makes a turn around each of the warp-threads, producing a nearly hexagonal mesh. See
tulle . Often contracted to bobbinet.
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Examples
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The machines were started at Nottingham in England, early in the nineteenth century, and were called bobbin-net, or point-net, or warp-net, machines, and the lace first made was often finished and enriched by hand.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Luddites, was the inventor of the bobbin-net machine himself.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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Heathcoat when he brought home the first narrow strip of bobbin-net made by his machine, and placed it in the hands of his wife.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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It is difficult to describe in words an invention so complicated as the bobbin-net machine.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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On the supposed invalidity of the patent, the lace-makers boldly adopted the bobbin-net machine, and set the inventor at defiance.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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It was on the occasion of this trial, "Boville v. Moore," that Sir John Copley (afterwards Lord Lyndhurst), who was retained for the defence in the interest of Mr. Heathcoat, learnt to work the bobbin-net machine in order that he might master the details of the invention.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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Next morning the learned sergeant placed himself in a lace-loom, and he did not leave it until he could deftly make a piece of bobbin-net with his own hands, and thoroughly understood the principle as well as the details of the machine.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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They always set to work -- especially, his great eminence considered, Sir Robert Peel -- by addressing themselves to individual interests; the measure will be injurious to the linen-drapers, or to the bricklayers; or this clause will bear hard on bobbin-net or poplins, and so forth.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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