slub

IPA: sɫˈʌb

(countable) A small thickened portion or knot found on linen yarn, caused by defects.
Fabric fiber produced by slubbing.

Examples of "slub" in Sentences

This is a public computer in the library SLUB.
Some slub, and now she's forever some anti Semitic slub.
Conventional slub yarns are plied and twisted with a high twist.
There are also other variants like SLOB and SLUB, that deserve attention.
A random signal generator using a maximum length shift register sequence to provide control pulses to a slub yarn producing open end spinning system. The time between control pulses is random to prevent any discernible pattern appearing in the fabric made from the yarn.