Throstle frame

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Throstle frame in Lowell, Massachusetts[1]

The throstle frame was a spinning machine for cotton, wool, and other fibers, differing from a mule in having a continuous action, the processes of drawing, twisting, and winding being carried on simultaneously.[2] It derived its name from the "singing or humming which it occasioned,"[3] throstle being a dialect name for the song thrush.

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  2. OED s.v. Throstle.
  3. Edward Henry Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary (Houghton, Osgood and company, 1881), p. 2564.

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