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What are bobbins?

What are bobbins? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of bobbin
  2. (Lancashire, slang) crap, rubbish, something worthless
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In days gone by I would have ordered the non-standard bobbins my sewing machine uses from his shop and got them in mere weeks.
The largest is the drawer machine which has 4 feeds and knits from four bobbins.
The bobbins not actually in use hang down fixed as in lace work by a half-hitch.
The family room tree has a sewing theme, with spools, bobbins and buttons for ornaments.
As in the slubber, intermediate, and roving frames, the rove is taken from two bobbins for one spindle.
In the 1970s he sold hundreds of skipping ropes made from old Yorkshire mill bobbins to American customers.

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