70 Verbs to Use for the Word yarning

We'll spin Crewe a yarn that we are depending on it as a clue.

Just let them tell that yarn to Unookuk.

I was going right down to the farm-house to console Melindy, and take her a book she wanted to read, for no fine lady of all my New York acquaintance enjoyed a good book more than she did; but Cousin Kate asked me to wind some yarn for her, and was so brilliant, so amiable, so altogether charming, I quite forgot Melindy till dinner-time, and then, when that was over, there was a basket to be found, and we were off,turkey-hunting!

"Did you ever hear Bob Taylor's yarn about Uncle 'Rastus's funeral?

And now let us light our pipes and finish our yarns as though agitated clients and thick-headed solicitors had no existence.

It was during this period that a hunter named Guinther discovered anthracite coal in Pennsylvania; that Whitney invented the cotton gin; that Samuel Slater built the first mill for making cotton yarns; that Eli Terry started the manufacture of clocks as a business; that cotton sewing thread was first manufactured in the United States at Pawtucket, R.I.; and that the first turnpike in our country was completed.

To take another example in the case of a mill for twisting cotton yarn into thread:In this mill there are 27 frames with 96 common throstle spindles in each, making in all 2592 spindles.

"Ain't you heard how they made up?" "Land sakes, no!" said the sister Lize, hurriedly finishing a stitch and then halting her fingers to pull the yarn.

Come, reel off a yarn, and let's hear houw yeou hitched teams," said Flint, always glad to get information concerning his neighbors, if it could be cheaply done.

I used to hear my mother talk about weaving the yarn and making the cloth and making clothes out of the cloth that had been woven.

I shall rub it into him that my supposed pal is a perfectly sensible, unimaginative sort of chapand anyway people don't invent a yarn like that.

30, there are six steam-heated cylinders to dry the starched yarns before the latter reach the loom beams.

If we git 'em to tellin' on one another, then we've got the whole yarn out, and ye won't have no trouble with the port authorities.

She didn't like Nate, and she did like Sam, and I don't spoze it made much difference in her feelin's, but Sam kep' sheep and did gin her yarn for a pair of stockin's, and jest out of pure kindness I colored it for her in my indigo dye tub.

The ball rolled swiftly towards Mr. Wheeler, and tangled the yarn around his feet.

U.S. Mr. Lincoln's funnybone; wherein the White House joker retells his best yarns & fables.

Jack, making light of the law and the lawgiver that had set their faces against his offence, insisted on taking up a forbidden seat in the rear of the roof, from which he could exchange his own yarns with those of the guard.

This is the yarn that M'Larty told by the brazier fire, Where over the mud-filled trenches the star shells blaze and expire A yarn he swore was a true one; but Mac was an awful liar: "'Way up in the wild North Country, a couple of years ago I hauled Hank out of a snowdriftit was maybe thirty 'below,'

The textile industry of Lancashire was built upon a prohibition of Indian muslins: it now exports yarn and piece goods to the tune of £32,000,000, and this trade was unjustly favoured at the expense of local mills under the Customs Tariff of 1895.

The reeling operation is useful in that it enables one to measure the length of the yarn; indeed, the operation of reeling, or forming the yarn into cuts and hanks, has always been used as the method of designating the count, grist or number of the yarn.

This deputation gave the usual yarn about being compelled to fight against us, and how glad they were that we had won.

B is the double warp plain wave, 8 units shown, and shows the method of interlacing the yarns h patterns B and T, Fig.

However, the rip-split-smash outside kind of jumbled three yarns into one.

"I'm afraid I don't know any yarns that would interest you, Sir," he said.

During the operation, the measuring roller and its subsequent train of wheels and shafts indicates the length of yarn which has passed over, also the number of "cuts" or "pieces" of any desired length; in addition, part of the measuring and marking mechanism uses an ink-pad to mark the yarn at the end of each cut, such mark to act as a guide for the weaver, and to indicate the length of warp which has been woven.

70 Verbs to Use for the Word  yarning