stocking frame

noun

1. a type of knitting machine Also calledstocking loomstocking machine

Example Sentences

The historians point out that machines have been taking away jobs since the days of Elizabeth I – who refused to grant William Lee a patent on his stocking frame on the grounds that it would take work away from those who knitted by hand.

From The Guardian

By hand, workers averaged 100 stitches per minute; with the stocking frame, they averaged 1,000.

From The Guardian

In the late 16th century, an English inventor developed a knitting machine known as the stocking frame.

From The Guardian

In the early nineteenth century, a more sophisticated version of the stocking frame became the focus of the Luddites’ rage; in towns like Liversedge and Middleton, in northern England, textile mills were looted.

From The New Yorker

The first, rudimentary knitting machine, known as a “stocking frame,” was invented in the late sixteenth century by a clergyman named William Lee.

From The New Yorker