to make a living

the silk industry

livelihood

(literary) they (about women or girls)

(colloquial) a girlfriend (a female partner in a romantic relationship)

(formal) Female third-person singular pronoun; she, her, girlfriend

spinning (usually silk) / silk reeling

a family, a household

to stand, to place in an upright position / to release something physical but not solid or liquid / (Internet slang) to start (a thread)

work, task, business: the job at hand / profession, business, trade: what one does to earn a living / studies, scholarship (the act of being a scholar), the arts