Sentence:  Each machine has on average 200 moulds, each mould contains 18 bobbins, and each bobbin, when first <WSD>cottoned</WSD>, 60 yards of wick, so that supposing all the frames of our seven machines to be fresh <WSD>cottoned</WSD> at the same time, we should have above 800 miles of wick in work. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To supply with a cotton wick.