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Rov′ing-reel.

A device for measuring the length of a roving, sliver, or hank of yarn. It has a drum and a small presser-roller, between which the roving is drawn by turning a crank on the axis of the drum; the axis has a worm cut on its periphery, which turns a dial-wheel indicating, by means of a pointer, the number of yards which have passed between the rollers; when the crank-handle is down, the dial stands at zero.

Roving-reel.

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