WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
draw′ing frame′, [Textiles.]
- Textilesa machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- 1825–35
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