Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spinning-machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A machine for forming threads.
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- noun obsolete A
machine for formingthreads .
Etymologies
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Latin filatorium place for spinning, from filare to spin, from Latin filum a thread.
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