Sliver (song) — Sliver Single by Nirvana B side Dive Released September 1990 Format … Wikipedia
Sliver- The Best of the Box — Sliver: The Best of the Box Sliver: The Best of the Box Album par Nirvana Sortie Le 1er novembre 2005 Enregistrement 1985 1994 Durée 74:34 Genre(s) Ro … Wikipédia en Français
Sliver: The Best of the Box — Compilation par Nirvana Sortie 1er novembre 2005 Enregistrement 1985 1994 Durée 74:34 Genre … Wikipédia en Français
top making — top making, the process of making woolen or worsted tops on a machine by combing the sliver to make the fibers lie parallel to one another … Useful english dictionary
top — top1 /top/, n., adj., v., topped, topping. n. 1. the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. 2. the uppermost or upper part, surface, etc., of anything. 3. the higher end of anything on a slope. 4. Brit. a. a part considered… … Universalium
Spinning mule — A pair of Condenser spinning mules. These have 741 spindles, being cut down from 133 feet (41 m) 1122 spindles they used to have up until the 24th Sept 1974, when they were retired from Elk Mill, Royton. The mule was built by Platt Brothers … Wikipedia
Spindle (textiles) — Eve spinning, the spindle in her right hand: Hunterian Psalter, ca 1170 (Glasgow University Library) … Wikipedia
Niddy noddy — with a removable crossbar. A niddy noddy (plural niddy noddies [1]) is a tool used to make skeins from yarn. It consists of a central bar, with crossbars at each end, offset from each other by 90°. The central bar is generally carved to make it… … Wikipedia
Combing — For the video visual defect artifact, see Interlace. Noble comber in Bradford Combing is a method for preparing carded fibre for spinning. It separates out the short fibres by means of a rotating ring of steel pins. The fibres in the top it… … Wikipedia
Distaff — Queen Berthe instructing girls to spin flax on spindles using distaffs, Albert Anker, 1888 … Wikipedia
Mule spinners' cancer — or Mule spinners cancer was a cancer, an epithelioma of the scrotum. It was first reported in 1887 in a cotton mule spinner.[1] In 1926 a British Home Office committee strongly favoured the view that this form of cancer was caused by the… … Wikipedia