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throwster
[ throh-ster ]
noun
- a person who throws silk or synthetic filaments.
throwster
/ ˈθəʊə /
noun
- a person who twists silk or other fibres into yarn
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of throwster1
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of throwster1
C15 throwestre, from throw + -ster
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Their engaging three hundred silk throwsters here in one week for New York was treated as a fable, because, forsooth, they have 'no silk there to throw!'
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It is handled here first by the throwster who winds it from the skein and makes different varieties of thread.
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Silk is to be delivered on bobbins from throwster.
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A woman's clack, if I have skill, Sounds somewhat like a throwster's mill; But louder than a bell, or thunder: That does, I own, increase my wonder.
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Who is the throwster and what is his work?
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