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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 spun silk
 絹絲

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spun imp. & p. p. of Spin.
 Spun hay, hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage, as on a military expedition.
 Spun silk, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton.
 Spun yarn Naut., a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.
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