bobbin
4
6.3
- noun
- /ˈbɑbɪn/
:
carrete
- Natalie picked up the basket of bobbins and began smoothing the colored threads with her finger.
- thread onto bobbin
Examples
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Natalie's fingers clenched on the threads she held, snapping them free of the bobbins.
Fiction book (1997) -
Natalie finished picking up the bobbins and sat on the sofa next to Paul.
Fiction book (1997) -
The golden brown is the bobbin for the seam.
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You shall have as many books or lace bobbins as you like.
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Apparently, there are many different kinds of bobbin lace, and each kind or style has a different kind of bobbins.
Blog text (9) -
Charlie Smith delivers bobbins of thread.
Fiction book (1999) -
This is Flemish bobbin lace from the late 1600s.
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I keep sewing feet and needles and bobbins and such in here.
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Slowly, following the instructions, she winds the bobbin full of beige thread, then threads the needle.
Fiction book (2000) -
She carefully wound the thread onto the bobbin before starting to sew the fabric.
Synonyms
25
3.0
A round device that holds and winds fishing line
14
3.2
A cylinder that holds thread, tape, or film wound around it
A small tool like a spool that holds wrapped yarn
Compounds
- Specialized
1
9.1
A handmade decorative cloth made by twisting thread wound on small wooden spools around pins on a pillow
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Etymology
Bobbin A helpful way to remember this word is that it comes from the old word bob, meaning 'to move up and down' or 'a small round thing'. So a bobbin is a little round spool that holds thread, and thinking of a small thing that 'bobs' makes the meaning easy to remember.