Loom
- For the graphical adventure game, see LOOM.
A loom is a machine or device for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices. One type of automatic loom is the Jacquard loom, which uses punch cards to control the pattern being woven.
Originally, powered looms were shuttle-operated but in the early part of the 20th century the faster and more efficient shuttleless loom came into use. Today, advances in technology have produced a variety of looms designed to maximize production for specific types of material. The most common of these are air-jet looms and water-jet looms.
[Weaving is done by intersecting the longitudinal threads, the warp, i.e. "that which is thrown across" (Old English wearp, from weorpan, to throw, cf. German werfen) with the transverse threads, the woof or weft, i.e. "that which is woven" (Old English wefta, from wefan, to weave, cf. German weben).
The Old English geloma and Middle English lome meant an implement or tool of any kind.
The earliest example with its specific meaning quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary is from the Nottingham Records of 1404.
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before the wedding, is not of much importance.
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world, never crosses his imagination. His highest aim (and that only
the mere offence of marrying their sister; and he dies by an
he has lived,--'ne valant pas la peine qui se donne pour lui.' The
enough, if to give pain be a dramatic virtue; and she appears in them
half as much pains with her as he has with the madmen, ruffians,
only character really worked out so as to live and grow under his
being a rough fabric, is easily manufactured with rough tools.
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I pray thee look thou giv'st my little boy
Say her prayers ere she sleep.--Now, what you please;
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pious horror and bombastic sermonising, the national appetite for
histories, French histories, Italian histories, and so forth, one or
playwrights of the day.
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appears, up to the breaking out of the Civil War, to have been the
such incomparable parts that he was the chief of the second-rate
'Gamester.' Whether the examination be a pleasant business or not,
memorandum respecting it occurs in the office-book of the Master of
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