hard-spun

Updated: June 12, 2025

The principal centre of this industry is the West Riding of Yorkshire, where, especially at Bradford, long English wool is converted into worsted yarns, etc.; while in the other cities, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, etc., short wool is converted into hard-spun yarn and cloth.

Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892