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gig-mill [f. gig n.1 + mill.] a. A machine for raising a nap on cloth by the use of teazles or wire-cards. b. A building in which such machines are used.1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 22 Milles called Gigge Milles, for the perchinge and burlinge of Clothe. 1556 Lease in Jeanes Catal. Berkeley Chart. (...
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Gig-mill
A gig-mill (gigging machine, napping machine) was type of raising machine that used teasels to produce a nap on cloth.
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Gig
Gig Ryan (born 1956), Australian poet born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan
Gig Young (1913–1978), American actor born Byron Elsworth Barr
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Gig-mill
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▪ I. gig, n.1 (gɪg) Forms: 3–8 gigg(e, 4–5 gygge, (6 ghyg), 6– gig. [Perh. onomatopœic; the identity of the word in all senses is very doubtful.] I. Something that whirls. † 1. A whipping-top. Obs.c 1440 [see whirligig]. 1570 Billingsley Euclid xi. def. xvi. 317 This solide [Cone] of many is called ...
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Nap (fabric)
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Beaver (cloth)
Gig-mill
Falding
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Textiles
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moze
moze, v. (məʊz) In 6 moise, 7 mose. [Perh. a derivative of moss n.1 (in the sense of ‘nap’: cf. moss n.1 5).] trans. To gig (cloth); to subject to the operation of a gig-mill. Hence ˈmozing vbl. n.1505–6 Corporation Minutes York IX. 32 (MS.) To crop and moise every suche clothe. 1633 Proclam. in Rym...
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Beaver cloth
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Swansdown
Nap (fabric)
Gig-mill
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Woven fabrics
Waulked textiles
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raising
▪ I. raising, vbl. n. (ˈreɪzɪŋ) [f. raise v.1 + -ing1.] 1. a. The action of the vb., in various senses; spec. in Curling, driving a partner's stone into one of the circles round the tee.a 1350 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 134/216 It was bigun..Thurg raising of þe kinges sun. 1388 Wyclif Judith xi...
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Carding
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Cotton mill
Cotton-spinning machinery
Doubling (textiles)
DREF friction spinning
Gig-mill
Open end spinning
Spinning
Spinning wheel
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Textile industry in Aachen
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Cloth merchant
Chinchilla (cloth)
Gig-mill
Timeline of Aachen
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Textiles
History of Aachen
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