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stocking frame
noun
- a type of knitting machine Also calledstocking loomstocking machine
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The first, which forms the foundation of the whole, is that for knitting plain hosiery, or the common stocking-frame.
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His cogitations resulted in the contrivance of a stocking-frame, which imitated the movements of the fingers in knitting.
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But the time of waiting was long and weary before he fell in with a Mr. Strutt, the inventor of the stocking-frame.
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When we speak of the stocking-frame, we speak of a machine which knits every article of hosiery.
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Were any people thrown out of employment by the stocking-frame?
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