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Bobbin vs Robbin - What's the difference?

bobbin | robbin |

As nouns the difference between bobbin and robbin

is that bobbin is a spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled while robbin is a kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies.

As a proper noun Robbin is

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bobbin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
  • * Jan. 8, 2004 , Machine Design Magazine , p. 108
    • Ignition coils using a bobbin molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.
  • In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
    • Wind the bobbin , place it in the machine, and raise the thread.
  • The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
  • (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.

    • Derived terms

    * bobbin-and-fly frame * bobbin lace * bobbinless * bobbinlike

    robbin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies.
    • The robbin of rice in Malabar weighed about 84 pounds.
  • (nautical)
    • (Webster 1913)

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