willow2 (wilo)

[Also willy, willey; short for willow- machine or willowing - machine.] A power machine for extracting dirt and foreign matter from hemp and flax, for cleaning cotton, and for tearing open and cleaning wool preparatory to terials vary in size, but are e entially alike, and consist spinning. The machines used for these different ma of a revolving cylinder armed with spikes in a cylindrical casing also armed with spikes. A part of the casing forms a grid or sieve, through which the waste falls by gravity or is drawn by a suction blast. In certain cotton manufactures it follows the opener, or is used in place of it, and is followed by the scutcher. Also called cotton cleaning machine, devil, opening-machine, willower, wil lowing -machine, willow- machine, and willying -machine. willow-beauty (wil'ō-būti), n. A British ge ometrid moth, Boarmia rhomboid aria. willow-bee (wil'ō-bē), n. A kind of leaf-cutting bee, Mega chile willughbiella (wrongly wil lough by ell a ), which builds its cells in willows, as originally described by Francis Will ugh by (1671).