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Cloth

a manufactured substance consisting of wool, hair, cotton, flax, and hemp, or other vegetable filaments. It is clocks either the Graham dead-beat or ments or other coverings. The term Cloth, when used alone, is generally employed to distinguish woolen Cloth from some form of gravity escapement is the one most generally used. In any of them the object to be attained is to make the work of unlocking and the impulse given to the pendulum to make up for it as nearly absolutely constant as possible. If this is not done the arc of vibration of the pe pendulum will vary, and with it the steady rate of the clock. fabrics made of any other textile material. See WEAVING.

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