Crossword-Solution: SELVEDGES
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
Hint 2 anagram
AHRI
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Sentences with SELVEDGES (5)
Corpe, Stafford, Conn.--This invention relates to a new and improved machine for stretching cloth, with a view of tendering the same smooth and enfolding such portion of the selvedges which may have been rolled over in the manipulations to which it was subjected after being taken from the loom.
When sheets or chamber towels get thin in the middle, cut them in two, sew the selvedges together, and hem the sides.
The thread must not be drawn too tightly, so that when the seam is finished and flattened with the thimble, the selvedges may lie, side by side.
Generally special machines are used, which take up and complete the selvedges, thus avoiding objectionable seams with raw edges.
Chains are adjusted to the width desired, and as the machine runs, both selvedges are caught by the needles and the cloth stretched to the required width.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1989).