"rowiness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1789, Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (page 4)",
          "text": "[…] thereby causing the rowiness or pattern-like appearance, which is completely obviated by the present contrivance."
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          "ref": "1838, Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (page 28)",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "1855, Thomas Love, The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring, and Finishing (page 64)",
          "text": "[…] 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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        "(textiles) The state or condition of being rowy."
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