A flat plate, board, or similar, forming part of a mechanism, apparatus, or instrument; spec. †(a) the face of a clock or watch (obsolete); †(b) a…

Weaving. Each of a set of weighted lines or cords attached to the harness of a draw loom, which are pulled to work particular parts of the harness…

Weaving. Now chiefly historical. A mechanism that pulls the strings of a draw-loom, replacing the work previously carried out by a draw-boy…

Weaving. Each of the perforated cards which encode the pattern in a jacquard loom or a knitting machine. Cf. pattern card, n. 2.

Any of a set of metal pins, rods, or wires for manipulating the threads in a knitting, weaving, or lacemaking machine.

A mechanical loom attachment used to define a pattern to be woven. Now historical.

= card, n.2 17a.

The surname of Joseph Marie Jacquard of Lyons, who, at the beginning of the 19th cent., invented an apparatus to facilitate the weaving of figured…

Also elliptical as n. = Jacquard apparatus, etc.

A frame composed of horizontal bars employed in pattern-weaving. Also griff-frame.

Weaving. An attachment to a loom for weaving small figures (i.e. from twelve to thirty-six threads) similar in principle to the Jacquard attachment…

Weaving. A mechanism for producing the figures in lappet-weaving.

a witch attachment for a loom; = sense 9; frequently as a modifier.

a perforated board in a Jacquard loom: see quot.

any of various cords in a drawloom joining the pulley cords and the leashes.