Flax - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: flaxFlaxen
Made of flax resembling flax or its fibers of the color of flax of a light soft straw color fair and flowing like flax or tow as flaxen thread flaxen hair...
Comber
One who combs one whose occupation it is to comb wool flax etc Also a machine for combing wool flax etc...
Factory
Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Linarium
Linarium, a flax plat, where flax is grown, Du Cange...
Yarn
Yarn, means any fibre, wool, silk flax, cotton, nylon, etc., spun into strands for weaving, knitting or making thread, AIR 1980 MP 69 (71). [Textile Committee Act, 1968, s. 2(g)(f)]The fabric which is woven includes the weft which means yarn woven across the width of the fabric through the lengthwise yarn. Thus the activity of the weaving involves passing of the weft through the warp, Ess Dee Carpet Enterprises v. Union of India, AIR 1990 SC 455 (457): (1990) 1 SCC 461: (1989) Supp 2 SCR 417.There is no particular definition of 'yarn' in the Act or the Rules or the notifications. According to the oxford Dictionary 'yarn' means any spun thread specially of kinds prepared by waving, knitting or rope-making. According to the Webster's New World Dictionary, it is defined as any fiber, as wool, silk, flax, cotton, nylon, etc., spun into strands for weaving, knitting or making thread, Aditya Mills Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 2237 (2229): (1988) Supp 2 SCR 668: (1988) 4 SCC 315 (318)....
Boll
The pod or capsule of a plant as of flax or cotton a pericarp of a globular form...
Broom rape
A genus Orobanche of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia They are destitute of chlorophyll have scales instead of leaves and spiked flowers and grow attached to the roots of other plants as furze clover flax wild carrot etc The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum...
cambric
A fine thin and white fabric made of flax or linen...
Canvas
A strong cloth made of hemp flax or cotton used for tents sails etc...
Capsule
a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels and opens to discharge the seeds as the capsule of the poppy the flax the lily etc...
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