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Find the best way to translate the word “spinner” as it is used in the passage b

French translation: fileur

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English term or phrase:Find the best way to translate the word “spinner” as it is used in the passage b
French translation:fileur
Entered by: FX Fraipont (X)

17:10 Apr 17, 2016
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English term or phrase: Find the best way to translate the word “spinner” as it is used in the passage b
HARGREAVES, JAMES
James Hargreaves (1720? - April 22, 1778) was an English weaver and spinner (he spun wool thread using a spinning wheel). He invented the spinning jenny, a hand-powered multiple spinning machine.
The spinning jenny was much more efficient than the spinning wheel. With a spinning wheel, a person could produce only one yarn thread at a time. With Hargreaves' spinning jenny, a person could produce up to eight threads at once (it used one spinning wheel and 8 spindles on which threads were wound). The thread that the spinning jenny produced was coarse, and was only suited for filling material, but it was still quite a useful invention, and led the way to even better spinning devices.
lynedy
United States
fileur
Explanation:
"fileur : Personne qui file de la laine, du coton; ouvrier/-ière travaillant sur un métier à filer dans une filature. "
http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/fileur
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find the best way to translate the word “spinner” as it is used in the passage b
fileur


Explanation:
"fileur : Personne qui file de la laine, du coton; ouvrier/-ière travaillant sur un métier à filer dans une filature. "
http://www.cnrtl.fr/lexicographie/fileur

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 07:48
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agree  StefanoFarris
0 min
  -> merci!
agree  Jasmine LAURENT
3 mins
  -> merci!
agree  CarolineRodg (X)
2 hrs
agree  Annie Rigler
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