Weaving. One of the upright posts of a loom; (hence in plural) the frame of a loom. Now archaic and rare.

Weaving. = lam, n.2

Applied to various round or rounded objects (the identity of which cannot always be ascertained).

A spindle: cf. trendle, n. 5. Obsolete.

Applied more or less specifically to many cylindrical parts of machines, etc. (with reference either to the internal chamber or external surface); a…

The apparatus in a loom by which the sets of warp-threads are shifted alternately to form the shed; the mounting.

Weaving. A metal eyelet or ring in a loom through which the warp thread passes.

Weaving. Probably: = harness, n. 6. Cf. mounting, n. 6. Obsolete.

Weaving. = harness, n. 6. Also: a set of heddles mounted upon a harness (also more fully leaf of heddles). Cf. heddle, n., leash, n. 7a.

A part of a loom, connected to the treadles and transmitting leverage by means of the spring staffs on to the heddle shafts.

Weaving. In a loom: a casing holding multiple shuttles each of which is loaded with wefts of different colours. Cf. rising box n. at rising, adj.…

one of a number of strings which pass between the mails and the harness-board of a loom.

Weaving. = harness, n. 6.

Weaving. Each of a pair of long laths between which the heddles are stretched; also applied to the pair taken together. Also in parasynthetic…

A device used to guide the yarn as it is passed from the bobbins to the reel in the preparation of warp for a loom, consisting of a movable frame…

(see quot. 1863).

Miscellaneous transferred uses: A candle of spiral form; a ‘rope’ of hair; the crank-shaft in a weaving-machine. Pharaoh's serpent: see Pharaoh's se…

attributive (chiefly in senses A. 2 and A. 4, as take-up lever, take-up reel, take-up motion, take-up spool, etc.).

A lever in a loom (see quot. 1894).