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    Rag-and-bone man (redirect from Rag picker)
    dealer (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, rag-picker, bag board, or totter, collects unwanted household items...
    21 KB (2,398 words) - 23:23, 8 July 2024
  • Pickering may refer to: Pickering Nunataks, Alexander Island Pickering, South Australia, the original name (1872–1940) of the town of Wool Bay Pickering...
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    Wool Bay (formerly Pickering) is a locality and a former government town in the Australian state of South Australia on the east coast of southern Yorke...
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    remove the vegetable matter, the cotton is sent through a picker or a similar machine. In a picker, the cotton is beaten with a beater bar to loosen it up...
    45 KB (5,748 words) - 13:20, 5 July 2024
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    developments in textile technology. Among the machines on display were a wool picker, a double cylinder carding engine, a 200 spindle spinning jack, a two-harness...
    15 KB (1,778 words) - 00:00, 12 May 2024
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    improved the reed, and invented the raceboard, the shuttleboxes and the picker which together allowed one weaver to double his output. This invention is...
    15 KB (1,817 words) - 10:25, 5 June 2024
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    Gleaning (redirect from Wool Gathering)
    diving Food bank Food rescue Food salvage Freeganism Tzedakah Usufruct Waste picker Hussey, Stephen (1997). "'The Last Survivor of an Ancient Race': The Changing...
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    Italian). Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana. Accessed July 2020. Tamsin Pickeral (2014). Dogs Unleashed. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press. ISBN 9781626860681...
    6 KB (542 words) - 18:09, 28 December 2023
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    about 200 people. This woollen mill was three storeys high and employed wool pickers, spinners weavers, etc. the main cloth produced was for trousers, plaids...
    13 KB (1,460 words) - 11:34, 28 October 2023
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    1762 – November 19, 1832) was an American inventor who made wool and cotton carding pickers. Pliny Earle I was born in 1762 in Leicester, Massachusetts...
    4 KB (411 words) - 18:38, 2 July 2024
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    States, Europe and Australia is harvested mechanically, either by a cotton picker, a machine that removes the cotton from the boll without damaging the cotton...
    116 KB (13,146 words) - 15:04, 10 July 2024
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    Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes: 9 George II (1735–1736) Pickering, Danby, ed. (1765). "Anno nono Georgii II". The Statutes at Large. Vol...
    137 KB (1,418 words) - 11:37, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Pickering
    Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and...
    11 KB (1,203 words) - 04:59, 21 June 2023
  • creature gets its tail caught in the cotton picker as it closes in on Hall, so he turns on the cotton picker, shredding the creature. The final shot shows...
    13 KB (1,468 words) - 17:26, 28 June 2024
  • Mayor of Worcester. On June 3, 1862, the camp was renamed Camp Wool, in honor of John E. Wool, the oldest general in the regular army. Units trained here...
    3 KB (263 words) - 13:31, 13 January 2023
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    have quickly become less precise, and was applied to a coarse cloth made of wool and linen, and in the reign of Edward III of England, the name was given...
    7 KB (1,030 words) - 19:18, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arapawa sheep
    Conservation Society classifies it as "rare". This breed is raised primarily for wool. There have been many theories about the origin of the sheep. It was once...
    4 KB (407 words) - 03:57, 20 April 2024
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    (1750–1751) Pickering, Danby, ed. (1765). The Statutes at Large. Vol. 20: From the 23rd to the 26th Year of King George II – via Internet Archive. Pickering, Danby...
    166 KB (1,278 words) - 22:50, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1555
    the Realm. Vol. 4 Part 1: 1547 to 1584. pp. 265–312 – via Google Books. Pickering, Danby, ed. (1763). "Anno secundo & tertio Philippi & Mariæ". The Statutes...
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    Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes: 1 George I (1714–1716) Pickering, Danby, ed. (1764). "Anno primo Georgii I. Stat. 2". The Statutes at Large...
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