These slivers are rolled up by the combers ten or twelve together, in balls called tops, each of which weighs half a pound.
The slivers which have passed through one system of rollers, are collected four or five together, and put through the drawing-rollers.
In all, the slivers pass through three drawings, and the whole extension is seldom less than 1000 times, and for some kinds of wool much greater.
After the slivers have been sufficiently extended and attenuated between the rollers, they proceed forwards, towards the spindles i i i, where they receive the twist, and are wound upon the bobbins h.
The size of the sliver is diminished by these repeated drawings, because only three slivers are put together, and they are drawn out four times; so that, in the whole, the sliver is reduced to a fourth or a ninth of its original bulk.
The union of the two slivers contributes to the uniformity, since the irregular thicknesses are thereby compensated.
During one winter I attended several dances in a rude hall whose walls were lined with benches of rough boards with the result that my black satin dress was so full of slivers that it took all my time to pick the slivers out.
Clara and I often got slivers in our hands and when mama took them out with a much dreaded needle, Clara was always very brave, and I very cowardly.
His knife still remained in its sheath, however, and with it he finally managed, though with great difficulty on account of the numbness of his hands, to cut off a little pile of slivers and shavings from a bit of pine.
They noted the reading of the barometer, and with a few shavings and slivers cut from its outside case they made a tiny blaze, and, as Glen expressed it, boiled a thermometer in a tin cup.
Ingested slivers of wood and bits of broken glass caused the deaths of some of the captives.
Some of the captives used their teeth to break glass water-containers and to gnaw slivers of wood from the cages.
A little diving platform is attached on the outer end of the springboard and a strip of old carpet or gunny sack placed on it to prevent slivers from running into the flesh.
It is very useful for extracting slivers from the flesh.
Others carried pieces of bark heaped with the slivers of pine of which every wigwam has store.
Why do you suppose she diverged from the path of safety to split into slivers against that fortunate ledge?
Then he ate sliversof dusky meat raw, throwing the bones to Nalik'ideyu.
And they have weapons such as make our bow cords bits of rotten string, our knives slivers of rust.
Chicken stock is delicious served as a simple broth with herbs, shredded or julienne vegetables, slivers of meat, or rice.
Then you begin a-slivering with a sharp jack-knife, leetle teeny flat slivers way up to the bark ring.
Then tie this last lot of slivers down tight over the others with a hard-twisted tow string, and trim 'em off even.
Four or six slivers are put together and run through this frame.
The slow pair hold theslivers back, while the fast one pull them on.
Defn: To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
Defn: A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
Carding & Spinning) Defn: To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Spinning) Defn: A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
Defn: To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.
Both wore clumsy but effective slivers of flint, for knives, in their girdles of twisted skin.
The old men and the old women most of them dozed in the shade, save two or three of the most diligent, who occupied their gnarled fingers in twisting thin strips of hide into bow-strings, or lashingslivers of stone into the heads of spears.
Allen briefly told him how he had met Slivers and of his belief that the boy had been framed by Spur Treadwell.
Slivers stooped and examined the two bodies by the light of a match.
Hell, I dream of sheriffs sneakin' upon me," Slivers said slowly and a little shame-facedly.
He stiffened and thought quickly for a moment, then said cautiously, "I always figgered as Slivers warn't the kind of man to dry-gulch a gent.
I think Slivers has a friend working on the ranch.
Yeh, mebbe she was, but Slivers is wanted bad for two murders, among which is her old man, so I reckon she forgot him.
Harlan, wounded hard, was trying to run to where he had left his horse, and after him fled Slivers Lowe.
Hopalong was gaining on them when he saw Slivers raise his arm and fire deliberately into the back of the proprietor of the Oasis, leap over the falling body, vault into the saddle of Harlan's horse and gallop for safety.
And while he listened, Slivers surreptitiously corralled the whiskey bottle and when the last man finished with it there was nothing in it but air.
Hopalong's shots went wide and the last view any one had of Slivers in that part of the country was when he dropped into an arroyo to follow it for safety.
With frantic ejaculations Sam made a dive at the reins, but only succeeded in brushing the torn slivers of his hat into the horse's eyes, which by no means tended to allay the confusion of his nerves.
The brim of Sam's hat was all unbraided, and the slivers of the palm-leaf started apart in every direction, giving it a blazing air of freedom and defiance.
Place the second pane of glass over the roots, letting the edge come just below the seed, slipping in the slivers of wood to prevent the glass crushing the roots.
The elephants had stamped out more room--had stamped the thick grass and juicy cane to trash, the trash into slivers, the slivers into tiny fibers, and the fibers into hard earth.
They wanted a real brave man to burn alive and stick slivers into and torment, and Col.
They was going to hev a great feast, and a good time a burnin' on him; and they tied him to a tree, and sot an Indian to watch him while they went out to cut pine knots and slivers to do him with.
A pound of slivers from it (about 260) may be purchased for $3.
Something whizzed within a few inches of Wooten's head, and there was an infernal clanging and clattering as slivers of steel drove through and against the ship's side and funnels.
This is done by taking a number of card sliversand forming a lap of them by passing the sliver through a sliver lap machine.
The cans containing the slivers are taken from the card or combing machine (as the case may be) to the drawing frame.
First, the slivers are passed through several sets of rollers, each set moving faster than the preceding, so that the strands are drawn out fine and thin.
Which he did, and there was enough deflection in it to miss me, except forslivers of the bullet, the casing of the bullet that went into my arm laying on the desk--slivers of the shell jacket.
Just wait a minute, doctor," she said, "your explanation of slivers and their treatment interests me very much.
Again Ermine shaved some delicate slivers off the stick; suddenly he threw it away, shut up his knife, and arose.
Pie up at Kustar's bake-shop was now one dollar a pie, and a pipe full of molasses and slivers was the best to be had in the market.
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