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1noil — [noil] n. [< SW Yorkshire dial. < ?] short or knotted textile fibers combed from the long staple or, sometimes, spun in with longer staple to make yarn …
2Noil — This article is about Noil. For NOIL (Nordre Oppdalen Idrettslag), see Nordre Oppdalen Idrettslag. Hand Dyed Silk Noil Noil is the short fiber left over from combing wool or spinning silk and used as a decorative additive for many spinning… …
3noil — [[t]nɔɪl[/t]] n. tex the short fibers of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing • Etymology: 1615–25 noil′y, adj …
4noil — noily, adj. /noyl/, n. a short fiber of cotton, wool, worsted, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing. [1615 25; orig. uncert.] * * * …
5noil — /nɔɪl/ (say noyl) noun 1. a short fibre of wool or silk separated from the long fibres in combing. 2. Wool a short, tangled and broken fibre which may contain vegetable matter, removed from wool during combing. {? French noel, from Medieval Latin …
6Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
7Industrial Review — ▪ 1994 Introduction The period since 1990 was proving a difficult time for the older industrialized economies, which had suffered from prolonged recession at home, and also for the previously centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe… …
8Spinning wheel — For the computer animation commonly found on the Internet, see Spinning wheel (animation). For the Blood, Sweat Tears song, see Spinning Wheel (song). Irish spinning wheel around 1900 Library of Congress collection A spinning wheel is a device… …
9Spinning mule — A pair of Condenser spinning mules. These have 741 spindles, being cut down from 133 feet (41 m) 1122 spindles they used to have up until the 24th Sept 1974, when they were retired from Elk Mill, Royton. The mule was built by Platt Brothers …
10Wool — is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, [Australian Wool Corporation, Australian Wool Classing, Raw Wool Services, 1990] of animals in the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of… …
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