Re: Eine beim haspeln

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>

> Speaking of German, can any native speaker unravel this
> early-twentieth-century description of what I think is a weaving procedure
> for me?  Found in a dictionary.  Maddeningly, it doesn't capitalize the
> nouns"
>
> eine beim haspeln durch einen quer darum gewundenen zwischen-faden
> abgefeilte u.für sich verbunden anzahl fäden
This is what I supposed it meant. . .generally:

"A number of threads which, while being reeled, are filed off and bound
together by a diagonally [or cross-] wrapped thread in between."

How close?  The embedded clauses are very defeating.  Eine blah blah blah
Anzahl.

Sally