ring spinning
noun
a process of spinning in which the yarn is twisted and drawn while passing through a small metal device traveling rapidly around a ring in the operation of winding the yarn onto a bobbin.
Compare
mule spinning.
Origin of ring spinning
First recorded in 1880–85
Words nearby ring spinning
ring road,
ring rot,
ring scotoma,
ring shout,
ring snake,
ring spinning,
ring spot,
ring stone,
ring syringe,
ring taw,
ring the changes
Example sentences from the Web for ring spinning
These human hands were swift, too, as when they thrust the bobbins of roving on the ring-spinning frames to be twisted into yarn.
The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete |Winston ChurchillIn Japan it is ring-spinning which prevails: 95% of the spindles are on ring-frames.