roving
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- noun
- Specialized
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rovings
- Some turned to casual sex for consolation; others to drugs, communes, political activism, primal screams, EST, or psychedelic roving.
Examples
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The yarn was spun from a black and gray roving and another brightly colored roving.
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All three wools on the left, LB Collection Pure Wool, Martha Stewart Crafts Roving Wool, and Alpine Wool, are types of wool roving.
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I dabble in a little bit of everything from locks, batts, and roving.
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Each colorway of the roving weighed in at 2.5 ounces for a total of 5 ounces.
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The yarn was spun from a black and gray roving and another brightly colored roving.
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I just finished up plying some gorgeous singles spun from roving by the Moonshine Fiber Company.
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All three wools on the left, LB Collection Pure Wool, Martha Stewart Crafts Roving Wool, and Alpine Wool, are types of wool roving.
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The roving was a combination of fibers including merino, colonial, alpaca, silk, sparkle threads, and soy silk.
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Wool roving is a single-ply wool that has been combed out of sheep fleece, drawn out into a clump, and slightly twisted into a yarn to keep the fibers together.
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The artist used soft, colorful roving to create intricate patterns in her woven tapestry.
Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that pulls and lightly twists loose fibres to make thin yarn for spinning
How Thick
Surface Forms
Morphology
roving = rove (opaque) = rove + ing
Although morphologically formed from 'rove' + '-ing', the specialized textile meaning is not inferable by learners who know only the common sense 'to wander'.
Etymology
Roving in spinning comes from the verb rove, which meant 'to draw out' or 'pull', so a roving is a long bundle of fibers that have been pulled out and are ready to be spun.