Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧵 To remove fibers 🧵 Fiber removal
to delint

to delint

1 9.6
To remove small loose fibers from fabric or cotton seeds
  • verb
  • /dɪˈlɪnt/
  • Specialized
: despeluchar
  • She spent the afternoon trying to delint her wool sweater before wearing it.

Examples

  • The workers will delint the fabric to ensure it is clean and smooth for the customers.

  • Before sewing, it is important to delint the cotton materials for a better finish.

  • They are sent back to the farmer's fields after dinner to delint the cottonseeds from the cotton bolls.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

to noil
vsto delint
  • Specialized
9.9

To remove short fibers from wool, silk and other cloth

is for taking lint or fine fibers from cotton seeds or fabric

How Clean

to clean
∞ 1.0
to scrub
145 1.0
to delint
  • Specialized
1 9.6
to brush
209 1.0
to dust
83 1.0

Surface Forms

delint infinitive
delinted past
delinted past participle
delinting present participle
delints third person singular

Morphology

delint = lint (transparent) = de + lint

The meaning is a standard and easily interpretable removal verb built from 'lint' with the privative prefix 'de-'.

Etymology

The word delint comes from the prefix de- meaning 'remove' and lint meaning 'small fibers or fluff', like the lint you see on a sweater or in a dryer, so to delint is to take those fibers away from seeds or fabric.