stocking frame

a type of knitting machine Also called: stocking loom, stocking machine

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William Lee's stocking-frame worked well for two centuries and a half.

Knowledge is Power: |Charles Knight
His cogitations resulted in the contrivance of a stocking-frame, which imitated the movements of the fingers in knitting.

Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science |J. Hamilton Fyfe
Were any people thrown out of employment by the stocking-frame?

Knowledge is Power: |Charles Knight
When we speak of the stocking-frame, we speak of a machine which knits every article of hosiery.

Knowledge is Power: |Charles Knight

But the time of waiting was long and weary before he fell in with a Mr. Strutt, the inventor of the stocking-frame.

The Boyhood of Great Inventors |A. Fraser Robertson