spun : Idioms & Phrases

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Spun hay

  • hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition.
Webster 1913

Spun silk

  • a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton.
Webster 1913

Spun yarn

  • noun (nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together
WordNet
  • (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.
Webster 1913