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English
Etymology
From Latin filatorium (“place for spinning”), from filare (“to spin”), from filum (“a thread”).
Pronunciation
Noun
filatory (plural filatories)
- (obsolete) A machine for forming threads.
1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:It [a silk manufactory] has 3 filatories, each of 640 reels, which are set in motion by a water-wheel; and besides a small filatory, turned by men.
References
“filatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.