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/pɜː(ɹ)n/ · noun
Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle..
[…] these yarns are to be wove in the usual way of weaving canvas, but the weft to come off the pern or quill double […]
Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern.
In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern, and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.
Those that, to ease their Purse, or please their Prince Pern their Profession
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Pern means Part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle..
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[…] these yarns are to be wove in the usual way of weaving canvas, but the weft to come off the pern or quill double […]
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