yarn-spinning

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• Spinning

  ·- ·adj & ·noun from Spin. II. Spinning ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Spin>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Spinning

  The notices of spinning in the Bible are confined to (Exodus 35:25,26; Proverbs 31:19; Matthew 6:28)...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Yarn

  ·noun One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed. II. Yarn ·noun A story told b...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Yarn

  Found only in 1 Kings 10:28, 2 Chr. 1:16. The Heb. word mikveh, i.e., "a stringing together," so ren...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• yarn

  A story. A word chiefly used by seamen. To spin a long yarn, is to tell a long or tedious story. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• yarn

  One of the threads of which ropes are composed. A number of these are twisted together to form a str...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Yarn

  The notice of yarn is contained in an extremely obscure passage in (1 Kings 10:28; 2 Chronicles 1:16...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bay yarn

  ·- Woolen yarn. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Rope-yarn

  ·noun the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Saxony yarn

  ·add. ·- A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Linen-yarn

  (See Yarn.) ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• rogue's yarn

  A yarn twisted the contrary way to the rest of a rope, for detecting theft or embezzlement. Being ta...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• rope-yarn

  The smallest and simplest part of any rope, being one of the large threads of hemp or other stuff, s...

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• spun-yarn

  A small line, formed of two, three, or more old rope-yarns not laid, but twisted together by hand or...

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• Spinning Wheel Alley

  A garden at the corner of "Spinning Wheel Alley," Moorlields, in parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate,...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• spin a yarn, to

  To tell a long story; much prized in a dreary watch, if not tedious. ...

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