Meanings
nounslubbings pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyFibers that have been slubbed.
The next improvement described, relating to these machines, consists of a means of preventing any entanglement of the rovings or slubbings taking place upon any of them becoming broken.
1851, The Engineer and Machinist, and Engineering and Scientific Review, page 231
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