120 threads or 300 yards = 1 cut (or lea)
2 cuts or 600 yards = 1 heer
12 cuts or 3,600 yards = 1 standard hank
48 cuts or 14,400 yards = 1 spyndle

Since jute yarns are comparatively thick, it is only the very finest
yarns which contain 12 cuts per hank. The bulk of the yarn is made
up into 6-cut hanks. If the yarn should be extra thick, even 6 cuts
are too many to be combined, and one finds groups of 4 cuts, 3 cuts,
2 cuts, and even 1 cut. A convenient name for any group less than 12
cuts is a "mill-hank," because the number used is simply one of
convenience to enable the mill-hank to be satisfactorily placed on
the swift in the winding frame.

The reeling operation is useful in that it enables one to measure
the length of the yarn; indeed, the operation of reeling, or forming
the yarn into cuts and hanks, has always been used as the method of
designating the count, grist or number of the yarn. We have already
seen that the count of jute yarn is determined by the weight in lbs.
of one spyndle (14,400 yds.).

For 8 lb. per spyndle yarn, and for other yarns of about the same
count, it is usual to have provision for 24 spinning bobbins on the
reel. As the reel rotates, the yarn from these 24 bobbins is wound
round, say,

6 in. apart, and when the reel has made 120 revolutions, or 120
threads at each place from each bobbin, there will be 24 separate
cuts of yarn on the reel. When 120 threads have been reeled as
mentioned, a bell rings to warn the attendant that the cuts are