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n. The act or process of spinning, drawing, or twisting into threads.

n. The act or process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.

n. A reel used in drawing silk from cocoons.

n. An establishment where silk is reeled.

n. The process of drawing fibres into threads, especially the process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.

n. A spool or bobbin used for the above.

n. A place where silk is reeled onto spools.

n. A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.

n. A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

n. A forming into threads; the reeling of silk from cocoons.

n. A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; a filatory.

n. An establishment for reeling silk.

n. a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread

"In one appalling calamity, a hundred women died in a fire that engulfed a silk filature because the owner had locked them in from the outside."

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