rowinessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

rowiness (uncountable)

1. (textiles) The state or condition of being rowy.
   • 1789, Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (page 4)

     […] thereby causing the rowiness or pattern-like appearance, which is completely obviated by the present contrivance.

   • 1838, Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (page 28)

     In Mr. Heath's machine […] is the means by which he obtains lines not only varied in themselves, but differing from each other so as to avoid rowiness, and thus to produce, it is presumed, a near resemblance to hand-ruling, retaining, at the same time, the perfect equality of distance between the lines and uniformity of strength characteristic of machine-ruling.

   • 1855, Thomas Love, The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring, and Finishing (page 64)

     […] and often through rowiness and being uneven he has to dye it again, a loss the skein dyer seldom has to complain of.