Clothing
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A short dictionary entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It gives a second sense of 'clothing' as the card clothing of a carding machine, meaning leather bands studded with wire teeth that engage the fiber. It then lists parts of garments whose names are used in a mechanical sense, such as band, belt, collar, hood, lining, seam and yoke.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
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- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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