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Fishing

leader line

leveling line (establishing horizontality during construction); level string line; leveling string

Organization name

Koito Industries, Limited

drawn thread

gassed yarn

Mortonagrion hirosei (species of damselfly)

second string (of a shamisen, etc.)

coarse silk from the outside of a cocoon (a type of waste thread)

angled luffa (Luffa acutangula); Chinese okra; dish cloth gourd; ridged gourd; sponge gourd; vegetable gourd; strainer vine; ribbed loofah; silky gourd; silk gourd; sinkwa towelsponge

woolen yarn; woollen yarn; knitting wool

tightly twisted thread

worsted (yarn)

Medicine

dermatophyte

hand-spun yarn

self-removal of stitches (esp. of pets, animals); self-extraction of sutures

cashmere yarn

slub yarn (yarn with lumps, thickening, etc.)

chenille; chenille yarn

Historical term

binding of plates with white laces (in traditional suits of armor)

Jocular, humorous term

purple; violet

Rare term

spinnerule (small spinning tube on a spinneret)