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Spun yarn   /spən jɑrn/   Listen
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Spun  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Spin.
Spun hay, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition.
Spun silk, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton.
Spun yarn (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.






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"Spun yarn" Quotes from Famous Books



... explain the marvel of such spider-like spinning, Estelle, I may tell you that seventeen and a half pounds of Catherine's yarn would have sufficed to stretch round the equator of the earth. No machine-spun yarn has ever come within measurable distance of this astounding feat, and I have never heard of any spinner in Europe or America equalling it; yet even this has been beaten when we were ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts



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