spuller
English edit
Etymology edit
See spool.
Noun edit
spuller (plural spullers)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.
Related terms edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)