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/spˈɪnɪŋ dʒˈɛni/ Listen

noun

Spinning n. A. & n. from Spin.

Spinning gland (Zool.), one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvae.

Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed in spinning.

Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles revolving simultaneously.

Spinning mite (Zool.), the red spider.

Spinning wheel, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself driven by the hand, or by the foot acting on a treadle.

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"Spinning jenny" Quotes from Famous Books

... certain that for every victim slain by the plague, hundreds of mankind exist and find a fair share of happiness in the world by the aid of the spinning jenny. And the great fire, at its worst, could not have burned the supply of coal, the daily working of which, in the bowels of the earth, made possible by the steam pump, gives rise to an amount of wealth to which the millions lost ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... hand and in the homes of the workmen. Very soon a number of improvements were made in the process of weaving. In the year 1730, John Kay invented the "fly shuttle." In 1770, James Hargreaves got a patent on his "spinning jenny." Eli Whitney, an American, invented the cotton-gin, which separated the cotton from its seeds, a job which had previously been done by hand at the rate of only a pound a day. Finally Richard Arkwright and the Reverend Edmund Cartwright invented large ...

— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon

... the cotton gin? the spinning jenny? Show how these inventions were a benefit to agriculture. How did they ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... like Dublin should suffer from the disappearance of its Parliament, which brought into residence for some months in every year some hundreds of persons of wealth and distinction. It was also inevitable that the mechanical inventions to which we have already alluded—the steam-engine, the "spinning jenny," and the "mule"—which revolutionised the world's industry, should have their effect in Ireland also. Under primitive conditions, with lands almost roadless and communications slow, difficult and costly, the various districts of any country had of necessity to produce articles ...

— Against Home Rule (1912) - The Case for the Union • Various

... middle of the century that foreign lands proved to be the chief source from which workers were recruited for the factories of New England. It was then that the daughters of the Puritans, outdone by the competition of foreign labor, both of men and women, left the spinning jenny and the loom ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard