spinning mill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspinandmill
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spin
noun
uk/spɪn/us/spɪn/
the movement of something turning round ...
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mill
noun[C]
uk/mɪl/us/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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(Definition ofspinandmillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If we were to take two or three men from aspinningmill, for instance, that mill would have to close down.
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If the case is as thin as he would imply, one wonders why thespinningmillis not there at the present time.
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In my constituency there is aspinningmillwhich has just stopped for the first time since 1923.
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The modernspinningmilltoday would spin 82,000 1bs.
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Let us take, for example, the cottonspinningmill, spinning the kind of yarn which is normally sold to a manufacturer to make overalls.
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Aspinningmillin the employment exchange area has put 33 women on to a four-day week, until further notice.
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This £7 million will be used on a number of projects including a power station and the completion of aspinningmill.
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Further machinery was being obtained with a view to starting work at thespinningmillitself, which is reported now to have been opened.
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In 1936 there were 28 mills, including onespinningmilland 16,750 looms.
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We would certainly like to see aspinningmill, and also further technical education in both knitting and designing.
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From thespinningmillit goes to the weaver, commonly called the manufacturer, and that is a separate trade again.
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If aspinningmillhas no more than six weeks' orders it goes on short time, because the necessary pipeline is so much longer.
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It goes in another lorry to aspinningmill.
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There the people who import the raw cotton send it to thespinningmill.
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One of my constituents had been an executive director in a worstedspinningmillfor about 17 years, and became redundant as a result of a merger in the group.
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In some cases from the time the cotton goes to thespinningmillto the time it is sold in the shop it often takes two years.
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They put down aspinningmill, they spun certain types, and they went to another place and did the weaving and to another place and did the dyeing.
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It became a private property and changed into a block of flats (some are still inhabited) and aspinningmill.
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He also operated aspinningmilland was involved in the export of hay.
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