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slubbings

slubbings noun: fibers that have been slubbed.

Noun

slubbings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Fibers that have been slubbed.
    • The next improvement described, relating to these machines, consists of a means of preventing any entanglement of the rovings or slubbings taking place upon any of them becoming broken.1851, The Engineer and Machinist, and Engineering and Scientific Review, page 231

Questions about slubbings

What does slubbings mean?
Slubbings means fibers that have been slubbed.
What part of speech is slubbings?
Slubbings is a noun.

Words near slubbings in the dictionary

  1. slubbering
  2. slubberingly
  3. slubbers
  4. slubbiness
  5. slubbing
  6. slubbings
  7. slubby
  8. slubs
  9. Sluch River
  10. slud
  11. Sluder

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