spuller

English

Etymology

See spool.

Noun

spuller (plural spullers)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.

Related terms

• spooler

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spuller”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Pursell, Spruell, pullers