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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 a barn they found four men dismantling bobbins of yarn, packed with the Sovereign cigarettes.
When finished with the length you want, take the strands off the bobbins and lace them through the holes in the edge of the pouch, two strands per side.
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.
I wanted as much of the tweediness as I could manage, and a fairly homogeneous color, so I plied two bobbins of two-ply yarn and then plied the results together.
Conveniently, there's a Fabricland at the mall across the street from my office, so I can go and buy all the necessary things like bobbins and thread and such.
Whenever the lantern was filled, the tenter carried the roving to a simple machine, where it was wound upon bobbins by hand.

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