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SPUN SILK

Definition: SPUN SILK

SPUN SILK

1. A cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: SPUN SILK

DomainDefinition

Industry

Yarn produced by dressing or combing processes from silk waste that has been'boiled off'to remove the gum. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SPUN SILK

English words defined with "SPUN SILK": leaf roller, leafroller. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SPUN SILK": chappe, chapped silkschappe silk, schappe yarn, silk noils. (references)

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Modern Translation: SPUN SILK

Language Translations for "SPUN SILK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

silkegarn (silk yarn, tram), schappesilke, affaldssilkegarn. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ZIJDEVEZELGAREN. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

silkkilanka (silk yarn). (various references)

   

French

  

fil de soie, fil de schappe, fil de déchets de soie. (various references)

   

German

  

Seidengarn (silk yarn), Schappeseide, Abfallseidengarn. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κλωσμένο μετάξι, μεταξωτό νήμα (silk yarn). (various references)

   

Italian

  

seta filata (thrown silk), filato di seta (silk yarn). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unspay ilksay

   

Portuguese

  

seda schappe (silk noils), seda fiada (thrown silk), fio de seda (silk yarn). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

seda hilada (reeled silk, thrown silk), hilo schappe (silk-spun), hilo de seda (silk yarn). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

silkegarn (silk yarn), silke (silk). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pamuklu ipek ipliği, kaba ipekli dokuma. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SPUN SILK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-k-l-n-p-s-s-u"

-1 letter: linkups, uplinks.

-2 letters: linkup, lupins, plinks, plunks, slinks, spunks, suslik, uplink.

-3 letters: kilns, links, lisps, lunks, lupin, nisus, pilus, pinks, plink, plunk, pulik, pulis, punks, silks, sinks, sinus, skins, skips, slink, slips, slunk, snips, spiks, spins, spunk, sulks.

-4 letters: ilks, inks, kiln, kins, kips, kiss, link, lins, lips, lisp, lunk, nils, nips, pink, pins.

 Words containing the letters "i-k-l-n-p-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: pluckiness.

 

+3 letters: spelunkings.

 

+4 letters: pluckinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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