bobbin : Idioms & Phrases


Bobbin and fly frame

  • a roving machine.
Webster 1913

Bobbin lace

  • noun a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins; the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins
    pillow lace.
WordNet
  • lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.
Webster 1913