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spinning mule

spinning mule

noun

  1. textiles See mule 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of spinning mule1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

The invention in the 1760s and 1770s of spinning machines to speed up cloth-making, including Hargreave's spinning jenny, Arkwright's water frame and Crompton's spinning mule, solved the problem.

From Nature

Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.

In 1779, Samuel Crompton, a retiring genius from Lancashire, invented the spinning mule, which made possible the mechanization of cotton manufacture.

From Forbes

He created the “automatic” spinning mule: an exacting, high-speed, reliable rethinking of Crompton’s original creation.

From Forbes

French twinners have a stationary creel, and the spindles move in and out with the carriage, as in the spinning mule.

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