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Words related to sliver

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  • breaker card

    the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.

  • card

    A card is a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard on which something is written or printed.

  • carding

    the process of preparing the fibres of cotton, wool, etc, for spinning

  • doffer

    a person or thing that doffs.

  • drawing frame

    a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.

  • flaw

    Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
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