fibres remaining after drawing off, reeling, or throwing nett silk, and fibres obtained from damaged or unreelable cocoons, noil - the shorter fibres separated from the longer fibres in combining during the preparatory process before spinning, noil - the short fibres taken from any machine operation in the processing of textile fibre; residue removed during the combing of the wastes to obtain the schappe, noil; bourette (silk) - the fibres extracted during silk dressing or those that are too short producing spun silk. These fibres are usually spun on the condenser system to produce what are known as silk noil yarns.