rowiness

English

Etymology

From rowy +‎ -ness.

Noun

rowiness (uncountable)

  1. (textiles) The state or condition of being rowy.
    • 1789, Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, page 4:
      […] thereby causing the rowiness or pattern-like appearance, which is completely obviated by the present contrivance.
    • 1838, Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, page 28:
      In Mr. Heath's machine […] is the means by which he obtains lines not only varied in themselves, but differing from each other so as to avoid rowiness, and thus to produce, it is presumed, a near resemblance to hand-ruling, retaining, at the same time, the perfect equality of distance between the lines and uniformity of strength characteristic of machine-ruling.
    • 1855, Thomas Love, The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring, and Finishing, page 64:
      […] and often through rowiness and being uneven he has to dye it again, a loss the skein dyer seldom has to complain of.
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