21 Verbs to Use for the Word lint

With many heart-rending "My God's," and all the while quickly picking her lint, she wept.

The disadvantages were the slowness of the harvesting, caused by the failure of the bolls to open wide; the smallness of the yield; and the necessity of careful handling at all stages in preparing the lint for market.

If you plant a certain crop of cotton, it will yield you so much cotton lint and so much cotton-seed.

All the servants had to fill up their bed-ticks with fine gin cottonthe lint partfor safe keeping.

Presently, they signed to us to pull in again, the which we did, and so, when we had hauled in a great length of their line, we came to the little oilskin bag, in which we found lint and bandages and ointment, and a further letter, which set out that they were baking bread, and would send us some so soon as it was out from the oven.

The baskets used for holding lint were twice as large as those used in the picking process, and they were never taken from the gin house.

By the side of a table, on which stood a candle in the midst of medicine bottles, an old woman and a young girl of about eight years oldthe woman seated, the child squatting before a great basketful of old linenwere making lint.

The draught animals at the beam ends were then driven round the path until the descent of the lid packed the lint firmly; whereupon the sides were lowered, the edges of the bagging drawn into place, ropes were passed through transverse slots in the lid and floor and tied round the bale in its bagging, the pressure was released, and the bale was ready for market.

The problem of the time had two possible solutions; the invention of a machine for cleaning the lint from the seed of the sort already at hand, or the introduction of some different variety whose lint was more lightly attached.

He took the keys, and groped into the seigniory house for the linen chest, and provided lint and bandages, and brought cordials from the cellar; making his patient as comfortable as a wounded man who was a veteran in years could be made in the first fever and thirst of suffering.

At the front of the house were a stair and a platform for unloading seed cotton from the wagons; inside there were bins for storage, as well as a space for operating the gin; and in the rear a lean-to room extending to the ground level received the flying lint and let it settle on the floor.

These lint baskets were used in removing the lint from the lint room to the place where the cotton was baled.

"Run to Miss Westcote's room and tell her we shall require lint and bandages.

The bolls opened but narrowly and the fields had to be reaped frequently to save the precious lint from damage by the weather.

In nursing the sick and wounded, knitting socks, scraping lint, and making jellies the bravest and best may weary if the thoughts mount not in faith to something beyond and above it all.

We have stuffed lint as large as this into his stomach.

Now, having finished our meal, the bo'sun took out the lint, bandages and ointment, which they had sent us from the hulk, and proceeded to dress our hurts, beginning with him who had lost his fingers, which, happily, were making a very healthy heal.

The sufferers parade their miseries, tear the lint from their bruises, reveal their indictable crimes, that you may pity them.

In Chapter V, it will be remembered, we did not permit ourselves to derive the costs of producing cotton lint from the utility of cotton-seed.

The throat and eyes are terribly affected, and it is necessary to work with the head bound up, and to comb the lint from the eyebrows.

When seed cotton was fed into the box and the cylinder was revolved, the sharp wires passing between the slats would engage the lint and pull it through as they passed out in the further revolution of the cylinder.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  lint