Crossword-Solution: THROWSTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Throwster | n. | One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. |
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| person who twists silk or other fibres into yarn | 1 answer |
| Gambling place | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach
accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the
stomach; loathing.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with THROWSTER (4)
Usually the work is done on commission--the manager, or throwster, receiving orders from weaving mills for exactly the sort of thread they wish to use." "Isn't it all alike?" "No, indeed! It varies in size according to the number of threads in a strand, and the number of twists and turns to the inch.
The throwster (to throw, means to twist or twine), after spinning the raw silk, imported from Italy, Turkey, Bengal, and China, into thread fit for the loom, sent it here in bundles, gummy, harsh, dingy; except, indeed, the Italian, which looks, till washed, like fragments of Jason's fleece.
Thus, as connected with the throwing or winding of these silken tissues, we come across such names as ‘Thrower’ and ‘Throwster,’ the former having been further corrupted into ‘Trower.’[332] Next to wool, perhaps leather formed the most important item of early manufacture.
One silk-throwster asserted that he had employed as many as 1500 workpeople at a time: 500 in London, 200 in Gloucester, 400 in Dorset, and 400 in Cheshire.