Stake-Head
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A short dictionary entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary defining the stake-head, a rope-making fixture. It is a horizontal bar on a post, placed at intervals along a ropewalk to support yarns during spinning, with pegs on the upper edge to keep the yarns separate. A line drawing (Fig. 5528) accompanies the definition.
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- Article
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- 1876
- Language
- English
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