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What is a bobbin?

What is a bobbin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  2. In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
  3. The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  4. (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
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The bobbin lace demonstration was fascinating since I had never considered how it was made.
Thread the machine needle with white thread and the bobbin with red thread.
As these ferromagnetic substances move within the magnetic field of the permanent magnet, it causes the flux through the bobbin to change.
There is a alternating current, instead of a direct current within the bobbin because of the motion of the string.
A quantity of lace includes Chantilly, Brussels, Flemish, Antwerp, and Devon bobbin lace.
Based on the original fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, this dance theatre work unwinds its thread from the story like spun gold on a bobbin.

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