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発音

• IPA: /slʌb/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /slʊb/
• 韻: -ʌb

名詞

slub (countable and uncountable, plural slubs)

1. (countable) A small thickened portion or knot found in yarn, caused by defects or uneven spinning.
   • 1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 135:

     The challenge is not just to produce a thick-and-thin yarn, but to make soft slubs, connected by nicely spun yarn without overtwist. The should not be lumps and bumps that happen by accident, but a contrived texture, with the size and placement of the slubs completely controlled by the spinner.

   • 2014, Thomas Allison, Moonshine Memories, page 98:

     The huge bolts of cloth had to be checked for imperfections such as slubs and misweaves.

2. Fabric fiber produced by slubbing.

動詞

slub (third-person singular simple present slubs, present participle slubbing, simple past and past participle slubbed)

1. To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.

関連する語

• slubber
• slubbings
• slubbing billy
• slubby

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

アナグラム

• blus