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▪ I. † ˈweftage1 Obs. rare—1. [f. weft var. waft v.1 + -age.] Conveyance: = waftage.
1615Crooke Body of Man 175 The naturall faculty needeth no vehicle or weftage, because it is inbred in euery part. ▪ II. weftage2|ˈwɛftɪdʒ| [f. weft n.1 + -age.] The arrangement of the threads of a woven fabric. Chiefly transf.
1681Grew Musæum i. §i. 3 Whereby also the weftage of the fibers..of the Muscules might more easily..be observed. 1746G. Adams Microgr. xxxvii. §4. (1747) 203 The Weftage of the Fibres [of wood]. 1901F. E. Taylor Folk-Sp. S. Lanc. (E.D.D.), Weftage, the texture of woven cloth. |