A number of strands, tows, or ends collected into a parallel bundle with little or no twist In spun yarn production, an intermediate state between sliver and yarn
The thick, rope-like mass of cotton fibers sent from the card room to the spinning room, where it was "laid up" above the spinning machinery in large coils--hence "roving haulers" or "laying up roving "
a process that reduces sliver produced by carding and drawing to a suitable size for spinning
A collection of untwisted strands wound together into a doff (ball) Also another name for the fabrication process step
You use roving to describe a person who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place. a roving reporter
a long, continuous arrangement of unspun fiber, immediately prior to the stage of worsted spinning
The soft strand from which natural fiber yarns are made It is one step from finished spun yarn Roving is delivered to the spinning frame and comes out in yarn form
The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine
{i} act of wandering, act of roaming; rove, cotton or wool fiber that has been stretched and twisted prior to being spun into yarn