hard-spun

American  

[hahrd-spuhn] / ˈhɑrdˈspʌn /

adjective

1. (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.

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hard-spun British  

adjective

1. (of yarn) spun with a firm close twist

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Etymology

Origin of hard-spun

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

That hard-spun leg-break that left Gatting staring at his stumps in disbelief went down in cricket folklore as the 'ball of the century'.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2022

But what really sticks out is its style, a callback to the hard-spun postbop with which Mr. Blanchard first made his name 30 years ago.

From New York Times • May 27, 2013

Warne's Ball, a hard-spun leg-break to dismiss Mike Gatting on the third day of the Old Trafford Test, is still jarringly fresh even as it approaches its 20th birthday this Ashes summer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2013

Gauze, gawz, n. a thin, transparent fabric, originally of silk, now of any fine hard-spun fibre: material slight and open like gauze.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various