Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the fiber short: applied in commerce to the ordinary upland cotton of the United States. See
cotton-plant , and comparelong-staple .
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Examples
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Spinning and nonwoven equipment includes full scale short-staple spinning line and medium sized dry- laid nonwoven line.
Industrial Magic And 10 Million Walking Shoes Thatsnews 2009
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Spinning and nonwoven equipment includes full scale short-staple spinning line and medium sized dry- laid nonwoven line.
Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009
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Linen yarns, too, are spun out of both short-staple fibers, called tow, and long-staple fibers, called line.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Linen yarns, too, are spun out of both short-staple fibers, called tow, and long-staple fibers, called line.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Linen yarns, too, are spun out of both short-staple fibers, called tow, and long-staple fibers, called line.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Linen yarns, too, are spun out of both short-staple fibers, called tow, and long-staple fibers, called line.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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In 1793 Eli Whitney introduced the cotton gin, which, by rendering profitable the cultivation of short-staple cotton in the uplands of the South, had a revolutionizing influence on the South and on the slavery problem.
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The slow action of the single roller-gin, cleaning about one hundred and fifty pounds of lint per day, made its cultivation too expensive, but the double roller-gin will clean nine hundred pounds in ten hours, or one hundred and twenty pounds an hour of the common upland short-staple cotton.
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The "green-seed" or short-staple variety is far inferior to the black for this purpose, and produces white, sticky, cottony-looking butter; indeed, most dairywomen insist that "you can pick the lint out of it."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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This room is always in the second story, and at one end of it a circular hole is cut in the floor; through this hole hangs the bag of strong, close gunny-cloth, very different from the coarse covering which suffices for the lower grades of "short-staple," supported by a stout iron hoop larger by some inches than the hole in the floor, and to which the end of the bag is securely sewed.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
chained_bear commented on the word short-staple
See long-staple.
October 13, 2009