spun yarn

He lashed the three together with a few bits of spun yarn from his pocket, making a mast nearly ten feet long.

The crippled boom was soon lashed with pieces of spun yarn, and the damage thus temporarily repaired.

The major's sister had at the same time a distaff which often spun yarn for her without any one handling it.

A spun-yarn winch was clinking on the forecastle; from alongside rose the music of fretted waters.

This is done in order to secure the very best fibers calculated to give the strongest and best results in the spun yarn.