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Spun yarn   /spən jɑrn/   Listen
Spun yarn

noun
1.
(nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together.





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"Spun yarn" Quotes from Famous Books



... explain the marvel of such spider-like spinning, Estelle, I may tell you that seventeen and a half pounds of Catherine's yarn would have sufficed to stretch round the equator of the earth. No machine-spun yarn has ever come within measurable distance of this astounding feat, and I have never heard of any spinner in Europe or America equalling it; yet even this has been beaten when we were ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts


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