silk-throwster
[f. silk n. + throwster.]
One who converts raw silk into silk thread.
| 1621 in Strype Stow's Surv. (1720) II. 234/1 The Silk-Throwsters humbly desire to be made a Fellowship. 1648 C. Walker Hist. Independency 86 One of the new Captains of the Hamlets, a Silk-Throster, and a Tub-Preacher. 1755 Gentl. Mag. XXV. 185 A paper..signed by forty eminent silk-throwsters and weavers. 1835 Ure Philos. Manuf. 239 There may..be a great increase of..Turkey raw silks without much increase in the silk-throwster's business. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 726/1 This is a special trade, the silk throwster usually conducting it in large mills with extensive machinery. |