bobbin
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bobine, recorded in English since 1530.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
Noun
[edit]bobbin (plural bobbins)
- A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
- Jan. 8, 2004, Machine Design Magazine, p. 108
- Ignition coils using a bobbin molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.
- Jan. 8, 2004, Machine Design Magazine, p. 108
- In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
- Wind the bobbin, place it in the machine, and raise the thread.
- The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
- 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 152:
- She went from the linhay and boldly pulled the bobbin of the fuel-house door.
- 1729, Charles Perrault, [[:w:Histories, or tales of past times: viz. i. The Little Red Riding-hood, London: Printed for J. Pote, at Sir Isaac New-ton's Head, near Suffolk-street, Charing-cross; and R. Montagu, the corner of Great Queen-street, near Drury-lane. M.DCC.XXIX. FC6 P4262 Eg729s. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.|Histories, or tales of past times: viz. i. The Little Red Riding-hood, London: Printed for J. Pote, at Sir Isaac New-ton's Head, near Suffolk-street, Charing-cross; and R. Montagu, the corner of Great Queen-street, near Drury-lane. M.DCC.XXIX. FC6 P4262 Eg729s. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.]], page 4:
- Put the bobbin and the latch will go up
- (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]spool around which wire or thread is coiled
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small spool in a sewing machine
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