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Definition of Throwsters
1. throwster [n] - See also: throwster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Throwsters
Literary usage of Throwsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"By the year 1661 the Company of silk- throwsters in London arc said to have
employed about forty thousand men, women, and children ; * and an enactment was ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1864)
"1456 ; SC 3 Bro. Parl. Cas. 349 ; Freemantle v. Co. of Silk throwsters, 1 Lev.
229 ; Cud don v. Eastwick, Salk. ..."
3. Silk Mill Costs by Clarence Munro Day (1912)
"... the quantity actually consumed, the quantity charged against each grade of
cloth must be reduced proportionately. 423 Raw Silk Sent to throwsters ..."
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