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spinning mule

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spinning mule
n.
See mule1.

spinning mule
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) Textiles See mule1 [3]


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The factory was established in 1798 in the Ancoats district of the city, and was one of the first buildings in the world to be designed for steam-powered spinning mules.
One such was Benjamin Phillips, who tried to smuggle a version of Crompton's spinning mule from Liverpool to Philadelphia, pretending it was a crate of pottery.
 
 
 
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