Crossword-Solution: KNOTTER 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Still controlling the agitated spool with her left hand, she detaches the end of yarn with the same hand from the spool, and by means of a patent knotter harnessed around her palm she joins together the two loosened ends, one from the little distaff and one from this large spool, so that the two objects are set whirling in unison and the spool receives all the yarn from the distaff.

Instead of giving me the patent knotter, which would have simplified my job enormously, she teaches me what she expresses "the old-fashioned way"--knotting the yarn with the fingers.

Every so often, he coals up the yacht, which is a seventeen-knotter, and goes off to the South Seas, hunting for treasures." "By George!" Fitzgerald whistled softly.

OUR HAPPY HOME Compared with that of a "27-knotter" of twenty years ago the wardroom of a modern destroyer is a palatial apartment.

When a thread breaks, the attendant places the two ends together in the machine and by the mere pressure of her thumb ties the knot much better than she could do it without the knotter.