bobbin
bo buhn
- n a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- Instead of a bobbin and shuttle, the new machines pushed loops of yarn back and forth through a mat like a sewing machine, and did it seven to eight times faster than looms.
- Last year Sears, Roebuck sold the astronomical number of 500,000,000 separate itemseverything from a one-ounce sewing bobbin to a 2,200-lb.
- Quick-witted, shrewd and resilient, he survived a Dickensian adolescence that included working as a bobbin boy in a textile mill.