loomn.1
/luːm/, U.S. /lum/ 1. † b. The penis. Obsolete.† c. = heirloom n. Obsolete.
a. An implement or tool of any kind. Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern dialect.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > [noun]
toolc888
loomc900
ginc1300
instrumentc1392
machinamentc1425
work-loomc1425
oustil1477
mistera1525
appliance1565
device1570
utensil1604
conveniency1660
contrivance1667
ruler1692
machine1707
implements1767
dial1839
dog1859
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Schipper) iv. xxviii. 521 Þa bead se Godes mon þæt him mon issern geloman [L. ferramenta] mid hwæte þider brohte þæt land mid to tegenne.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 100 Iblesced beo þi muð..for þu makest lome to timbri mi crune.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 42 So hit wes bistad þat no mon hem ne bad huere lomes to fonde.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vi. 45 The lomes þat ich laboure with and lyflode deserue Ys pater-noster and my prymer.
a1400 Sir Perc. 2032 Fulle evylle myght any mene smale,..With siche a lome fighte.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2309 He lyftes lyȝtly his lome & let hit doun fayre With þe barbe of þe bitte bi þe bare nek.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 312/1 Loome, or instrument (S. loombe), utensile.
c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 518 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 271 Þai had na lomys to wil, for to make a gannand grawe.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. iii. 53 Enee..With lume in hand fast wirkand like the laif.
1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith i. 15 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) The Craftsman now his lumes away hath laide.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 51 An outligger carryeth but onely one loome to the fielde and that is a rake.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 51 Your hands are toom O' chappin-stick and weirlike loom, To batter at the bawd o' Rome.
1894 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin: Swatches o' Hodden-Grey iv. 31 ‘They wad get the contents o' that lume i' their wames, though!’ said Willie, pu'in’ oot a muckle horse pistol.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
a1400–50 Alexander 4750 And large was his odd lome þe lenthe of a ȝerde.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 45 His lwme is vaxit larbar.
1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvii. 95.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property > heirloom
loom1424
heirloom1472
house-looma1685
family jewels1735
family portrait1814
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 I wull he haue my grete maser..for þe terme of his life, and so from heir to heyr lome.
1814 Sailor's Return ii. iii, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 340 With all the appurtenances, messuages, tenements, hereditaments, looms heir, rights of court, leet, and baron..thereto appertaining and belonging.
d. dialect. Applied to persons, with adjectives of contemptuous meaning. (Cf. tool n. 3.)
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > person as > mere
stale1580
creature1587
puppet1592
motion1602
property1611
looma1650
tool1663
cat's-foot1675
cat's paw1785
paw1824
dummy1866
stooge1937
a1650 Sir Aldingar 47 in Furnivall Percy Folio I. 168 ‘Goe with me’, saide our comly king, ‘This lazar for to see’. .. ‘there is a lodly lome’, says Harry King, ‘for our dame Queene Elinor!’
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Leumm, loom; a tool; a term of reproach. ‘He's an ill leumm’.
2. † b. Vessel, boat. Obsolete. rare.
a. An open vessel of any kind, as a bucket, tub, vat, etc. Obsolete exc. Scottish.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > open vessel
looma1300
a1300 E.E. Psalter xxxii. 7 Samenand als in lome watres of se.
13.. Childh. Jesus 659 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 74 336 Thies clathis sente he..ffor to litte thayme..Doo thayme in ȝone lomys three.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 447 In lomys smaller hent this must, and vse hit as wyn pestilent.
1509 Market Harboro' Rec. (1890) 233 Item a growt lome and a lome for grenys vjd.
1577 Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1832) 80 Þe third falt breking of þair lwmes, delyng of the brewing [etc.].
1586 MS. Inv., Hatfield Woodhouse, Yorks. It. kyts, stands, lombes, boules, dyshes, chyrne, flackets.
1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 66 No Fisherman..shall use..any Weel called a Lomb, or a Mill-Pot, or any other Engine.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 215 ‘Aye, and there's something to pit it in,’ said the mendicant, eyeing the ram's horn—‘that loom's an auld acquaintance o' mine.’
1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1860) 1st Ser. 154 Having referred to the accident [of falling from his gig], Balnamoon quietly added, ‘Indeed, I maun hae a lume that'll had in’.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun]
shipc725
beamOE
boardOE
bargea1300
steera1300
vessela1300
treea1382
loomc1400
man1473
ark1477
bottom1490
keela1547
riverboat1565
craft1578
pine1592
class1596
flood-bickerer1599
pitchboard1599
stern-bearer1599
wooden horse1599
wooden isle1603
water treader?1615
water house1616
watercraft1618
machine1637
prore1642
lightman1666
embarkation1690
bark1756
prowa1771
Mudian1813
bastiment1823
hooker1823
nymph1876
M.F.V.1948
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 443.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 314 And þus of lenþe & of large þat lome [sc. the Ark] þou make.
3. figurative.1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. A4 Whatsoeuer they weaue (in the motley-loome of their rusty pates).1645 Z. Boyd Holy Songs 443 Sorrowes are as threeds a Crosse in this our earthly loome.1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 62 in Poems All like a comely youth in lifes fresh bloom; Rare workmanship, and wrought by heavenly loom.1768 T. Gray Fatal Sisters in Poems 80 Glitt'ring lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom.1787 Minor 54 The best wrought piece that ever issued from his intellectual loom.1864 H. W. Longfellow Hawthorne 7 The great elms o'erhead Dark shadows wove on their aërial looms.† b. transferred. Attributed to a spider or caterpillar; occasionally used poetically for the web itself. Obsolete.
a. A machine in which yarn or thread is woven into fabric by the crossing of threads called respectively the warp and weft. (In quots. 1535, 1566 apparently used for: The beam of a loom.)Often with prefixed word indicating (a) the kind of material produced, as † linen loom, ribbon loom, †woollen loom, etc.; (b) the method of operation, as hand loom, power loom; (c) some particular form of construction, as circular loom, draw loom; (d) the inventor or improver, as Jacquard loom: for which see those words.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom
web-loom1338
loom1404
weaving-loom1496
weaving-frame1530
1404 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 22 Item, j lynyn lome, et j. warpyngstok et warpyngtree, et j. wheel, appretiata ad ijs. iiijd.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 312/1 Loome of webbarys crafte (K.P. of webstare), telarium.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 106/1 To serche all maner Worstedes, or to do serche, as well within the Lomes as oute of the Lomes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xvii. 7 The shaft of his speare was like a weauers lome.
1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 107 Johnne Craile who haith made a weavers lomb therof.
1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. Hv His vestaments sit as if..art had wrought 'em on the same loome, as nature fram'd his Lordship.
1675 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 120 Those weavers who had loomes without engines broke open ye houses of all those weavers who had loomes wth engines.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 332 These Wenches..pass their time at their Looms under the shade of their Trees.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lv. 89 The looms of Ionia were kept in constant activity to supply purple robes for the Courtiers.
1842 T. B. Macaulay Horatius in Lays Anc. Rome 76 When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland v. 104 The artizans set up their looms, and began diligently to work at the manufacture of..cloth.
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a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Hiii Finest silke, Fetcht from the natiue loomes of laboring wormes.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2 v Spiders..that wont to set vp their loomes in euerie windowe.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. B4 O thou that on thy pillow (lyke a Spider in his loome) weauest mischeuous nets.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K4v Like spider in her web, so do we sit Within this spirit, and if ought do shake This subtile loom we feel as it doth hit.
4. Put for: The art, business, or process of weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving
webbinga1325
weaving1377
texture1447
endrapering1461
loom-work1598
contexture1649
textury1658
loom1678
woof1700
weavering1720
tissue1850
1678 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum (ed. 2) 240 The dressing and preparing of Hemp and Flax, from the Stalk to the Loom.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 433 Unbred to Spinning, in the Loom unskill'd.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 416 Who..Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. iii. 87 Clothes..of much finer cloth, the manufacture of the German loom.
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. v. 140 The intervention of merchants and dealers gives a continuous motion to the plough and the loom.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 82 And one among his gentlewomen Display'd a splendid silk of foreign loom.
5. The shaft, i.e. the part between the blade and the handle of an oar; also, limited to the part of the oar between the rowlock and the hands in rowing; also, loosely, the handle.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > shaft of oar
loom1697
shank1820
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 54 Of the young Trees Privateers use to make Looms, or Handles for their Oars.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Oar That part of the oar..which is within-board, is termed the loom.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. ii. 39 The oar meeting no resistance, its loom, or handle, came back upon the bosom of..Sally.
1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 30 The oar or scull [consists] of handle, loom, shank, and blade.
1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Loom,..the part of an oar that is in a boat when the rest of it is out.
1893 F. M. Crawford Children of King i. 5 Out go the sweeps,..and the men throw themselves forward over the long slender loom, as they stand.
6.
a. Flexible tubing which is fitted over the ordinary insulation of an electric wire to provide additional protection.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > insulation for wires
loom1917
spaghetti tubing1922
systoflex1922
spaghetti1960
1917 A. L. Cook Interior Wiring xiii. 235 For wires carrying more than 300 volts or for damp places, flexible conduit or armored cable must be used. The flexible tubing used is sometimes called ‘circular loom’.
1939 H. P. Richter Pract. Electr. Wiring xi. 158 Where wires cross each other, slip loom over both wires.
b. A group of parallel electrically insulated wires bound together into a bundle; (see also quot. 1949).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > insulation for wires > insulated wires
loom1949
1949 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) ii. 23 Loom, one or more cables pre-assembled for installation in an aircraft.
1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 139/1 A wiring loom prevented the dipstick being removed or replaced easily.
1972 C. E. Jowett Electronic Engin. Processes iv. vi. 141 The forming of looms should preferably be by means of plastic ties, at an approximate pitch of 25 or 38 mm.
Compounds
C1. Simple attributive.
loom-beam n.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 3 His Launce a Loom-beam, or a Mast (as big) Which yet he shaketh as an Osier twig.
loom-pattern adj.
ΚΠ
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 259 Loom-pattern drawing.
loom-post n.
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1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. xxii. 155 He had a wee box on the tap o' his loom.., and he had a slate that hung on his loompost.
loom-room n.
ΚΠ
1845 Knickerbocker 25 448 I went out to look at the loom-room.
loom-spoke n.
ΚΠ
1824 J. Hogg Private Mem. Justified Sinner 331 The destructive weaver seized a loomspoke, and began a-beating me.
loom-treadle n.
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1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. v, in Fraser's Mag. June 674/1 ‘Religion..weaving for herself new Vestures’;—Teufelsdröckh himself being one of the loom-treaddles?
loom weight n.
ΚΠ
1881 Archaeologia 46 468 The loom weights of chalk..were used to weigh down the warp in the process of weaving.
C2. Instrumental.
loom-made adj.
ΚΠ
1890 Daily News 13 Nov. 5/5 Finest loom-made Spanish lace.
loom-wrought adj.
ΚΠ
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 199 Its woven waters seemed to fall, Its trees, its beasts, its loom-wrought folk, Now seemed indeed as though they woke.
C3. Objective.
loom-maker n.
ΚΠ
1851 in Illustr. London News 5 Aug. (1854) 119 Occupations of the People, loom-maker.
loom-worker n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who
webber1255
weaver1362
textour1558
loom-flittera1657
loom-worker1659
textilist1855
shuttler1870
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Telaruólo, a weaver or loom-worker of any kind of cloth.
C4. Locative.
loom-bred adj.
ΚΠ
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xxviii. 36 Dunfermline, too..Sends out her loom-bred men.
C5. Special combinations.† loom-flitter n. Obsolete a weaver. † loom-work n. Obsolete weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > one who
webber1255
weaver1362
textour1558
loom-flittera1657
loom-worker1659
textilist1855
shuttler1870
a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. iv. 86 Children..can name Oligarchy, wth more Ease Then a Loome-flitter, can Church Hierarchies.
loom-house n. a building or factory in which weaving is carried on.
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1819 Western Rev. I. 303 The other two young women slept in a loom house adjoining.
1838 Southern Lit. Messenger 4 405 They always lie about the dairy and loom-house.
1864 B. Brierley Layrock of Langley-side ix. 121 We'st be as quiet as a empty loomheawse.
loom-lace n. lace made in a loom.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > made in a loom
loom-lace1689
1689 London Gaz. No. 2493/4 A Wastcoat lac'd with broad Silver knotted Loom-lace.
loom-lord n. the proprietor of weaving machinery.Apparently an isolated use.
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1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude vi. 123 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loomlords.
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loom-picture n. a picture woven in textile fabric.
loom-shed n. = loom-house n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > place for
weaving-housec1440
weaving-shop1564
shop1614
loom-shed1835
loom-shop1835
weaving-mill1835
weaving-room1844
weaving-shed1844
weaving-factory1845
pirn-house1867
loom-stead1869
loom-stance1876
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 351 A loom-shed.
loom-shop n. = loom-house n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > place for
weaving-housec1440
weaving-shop1564
shop1614
loom-shed1835
loom-shop1835
weaving-mill1835
weaving-room1844
weaving-shed1844
weaving-factory1845
pirn-house1867
loom-stead1869
loom-stance1876
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 263 The master of a loom-shop.
loom-stance n. = loom-house n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > place for
weaving-housec1440
weaving-shop1564
shop1614
loom-shed1835
loom-shop1835
weaving-mill1835
weaving-room1844
weaving-shed1844
weaving-factory1845
pirn-house1867
loom-stead1869
loom-stance1876
1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 6 The shop, containing generally several looms—a loom-stance being often sublet by the householder—was on the other [side].
loom-state adj. of woollen fabrics, in the state in which they came from the loom, untreated.
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1961 H. Blackshaw & R. Brightman Dict. Dyeing 101 Loomstate, woven fabrics in the condition in which they come from the loom. For practical purposes the term is synonymous with Grey (adjective).
1972 Times 9 May 20/6 Lists of cotton ‘grey’ (loomstate) goods.
loom-stead n. = loom-house n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > place for
weaving-housec1440
weaving-shop1564
shop1614
loom-shed1835
loom-shop1835
weaving-mill1835
weaving-room1844
weaving-shed1844
weaving-factory1845
pirn-house1867
loom-stead1869
loom-stance1876
1869 I. Burns Life W. C. Burns (1870) iv. 101 The weaving loomsteads.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving
webbinga1325
weaving1377
texture1447
endrapering1461
loom-work1598
contexture1649
textury1658
loom1678
woof1700
weavering1720
tissue1850
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxxi. 59/2 These clothes..being very costly wrought with loome worke.
a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Sloane 3150) f. 26 She taught Arachne her curiouse lomeworke.
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loomn.2
/luːm/, U.S. /lum/ a. A name given in northern seas to species of the Guillemot and the Diver, esp. Alca bruennichi and Colymbus septentrionalis (Red-throated Diver). Cf. loon n.2
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > member of genus Uria (guillemot)
coot1382
murre1578
scout1596
guillem1603
willock1606
kiddaw1674
sea-hen1676
guillemot1678
loom1694
lavy1698
foolish guillemot1776
willy1780
turr1794
tinkershere1799
strany1804
spratter1863
bacalao-bird1865
tinker1880
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Gariidae (divers and loons) > member of
ducker?a1500
diver1678
loom1694
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 343 It is common among the Norwegians and Islanders, who in their own Country Language call it Lumme.]
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 80 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Lumb..is quite black at the top, but underneath his belly even to the neck, he is snow-white.
1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 114 On the water, near the rocks, there were thousands of lummes and razor-bills.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. x. 1760 The greater lumme, or diver, found in the northern parts of Europe.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iv. 51 We saw a few looms and shear-waters.
1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris xvi. 391 One lumne.
1886 A. W. Greely 3 Years Arctic Service I. 49 On the face of these sea-ledges of Arveprins Island Bruennich's guillemots, or looms, gather in the breeding season..by tens of thousands.
b. The flesh of these birds as an article of food.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > flesh of other birds
larka1325
pigeona1425
storka1475
wheatear1591
ortolana1667
loom1878
ostrich1955
1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea iii. 46 We revelled in ‘loom soup’, ‘loom pie’, ‘roast loom’ [etc.].
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loomn.3
/luːm/, U.S. /lum/ 1. A seaman's term for the indistinct and exaggerated appearance or outline of an object when it first comes into view, as the outline of land on the horizon, an object seen through the mist or darkness, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > becoming indistinctly visible > object
loom1836
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. x. 291 We're very near the land, Captain Wilson; thick as it is, I think I can make out the loom of it.
1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. xii. 288 I did not see anything but the loom of her hull.
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe li A dark line, too faint for landsmen's eyes, far ahead, which changed into a loom of land.
1881 Times 30 May 6/4 Suddenly the loom of a rock was seen right ahead.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxiv. 244 Looking back there was nothing but a dim loom to show where we had left the great vessel.
1918 J. Galsworthy Five Tales, Indian Summer i Fields and trees faintly glistened, away to a loom of downs.
2. dialect. (See quot. 1878 and cf. loom v.2 1.)
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1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Loom, the slow and silent motion of the water of a deep pool.
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loomadj.
/luːm/, U.S. /lum/ Nautical.
Of a breeze or wind: Easy, gentle. Obsolete except in loom gale n. ‘an easy gale of wind, in which a ship can carry her whole topsails atrip’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > allowing specific sails to be carried
topsail cole1390
loom1600
reef-topsail1693
topgallant1697
whole-sail1824
1600 J. Davis in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 118 An island of ice was carried by the force of the current as fast as our barke could saile with lum wind, all sailes bearing.
1609 in S. Purchas Pilgrims (1625) IV. ix. v. 1733 By the feruent heat and loomes breezes, many of our men fell sicke of the Calenture.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 17 A spoute, a loume gaile, an eddy wind.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 46 A faire Loome Gale is the best to saile in, because the Sea goeth not high, and we beare out all our sailes.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxviii. 252 We had runne..with all the sayles abroad we could make, and in a faire loome gale.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. x We..stood for the Offing with a fair loom Gale.
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loomv.1
/luːm/, U.S. /lum/ rare.
1. transitive. To weave (a fabric).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave fabric
weavec900
weba1325
warpc1430
loom?1549
tissuea1851
?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. x. 161 He..is as long in the morning to set his berd in an order, as a godlie crawftis man would be in loming of a peace of karsey.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 145 The cloth loomed from the cotton thread of the country.
2. Weaving. to loom the web: to ‘mount’ the warp on the loom. Also absol.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > set warp
warp?1529
loom1827
slay1828
1827 W. Taylor Poems 58 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Thou's begun to loom thy wab, I'se thinking yer a wabster bred.
1851 L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vii**/2 The ‘lease’ now being taken, and the cross bands or threads being introduced for the purpose of ‘looming’, or drawing in of the weaver's beam.
1883 A. Brown Power-loom (ed. 4) 86 The process of looming the web.
Derivatives
ˈloomed adj. woven.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > woven
browdenOE
woven1488
traceda1525
obtexed1623
wove1710
loomed1729
woofed1820
textile1844
1729 R. Savage Wanderer i. 277 He..with loom'd Wool the native Robe supplies.
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loomv.2
/luːm/, U.S. /lum/ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > move in waves [verb (intransitive)]
popplea1522
wave1530
loom1605
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > rise and fall
lifta1400
heave and set1509
surge1511
loom1605
senda1625
pitcha1687
tittup1881
1605 Sir T. Smithes Voiage in Rushia sig. Cv To behold one of the 3. gallant spectacles in the world, A Ship vnder sayle, loming (as they tearme it) indeede like a Lyon pawing with his forfeet.
1667 S. Colepress in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 481 Being in a Calm, that way which the Sea began to Loom or move, the next day the Wind was sure to blow from that point of the Compass towards which the Sea did Loom the day before.
1678 Young Man's Calling 93 This is to him as the due ballast to the ship, which makes the vessel indeed loome somewhat deeper, but keeps it from tossing too lightly upon the uncertain waters.
2. in extended use.jocular1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings I. v. 37 He understood it was quite a ladies' affair, and loomed in, dressed up to the nines.
a. intransitive. To appear indistinctly; to come into view in an enlarged and indefinite form. Also with up. Often with adjective complement, as to loom large.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible
ariseOE
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225
'peara1382
appear1382
kithea1400
to show out?a1425
muster?1435
to come forthc1449
to look outa1470
apparish1483
to show forth1487
come1531
to come out?1548
peer1568
to look through1573
glimpse1596
loom1605
rise1615
emicate1657
emike1657
present1664
opena1691
emerge1700
dawn1744
to come down the pike1812
to open out1813
to crop out1849
unmask1858
to come through1868
to show up1879
to come (etc.) out of thin air1932
surface1961
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > become indistinctly visible
loom1605
dimmer1873
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 233 Heere smoakes a Castle, there a Citie fumes, And heere a Shipp vpon th' Ocean loomes [Fr. Et là flote vne nef sur Neptune irrité].
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (at cited word) A Ship Loomes a great or a small sail, a term used in Navigation, and signifieth as much as a Ship seems a great or a little Ship.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Looming She looms large afore the wind.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Mirer To loom, or appear indistinctly.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage vi. 87 We saw the land looming.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxvi. 136 A great ship loomed up out of the fog.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 124 The hard stern outlines loom around Of hill by many a frost embrowned.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xv. 110 Men are magnified to giants, and brigs ‘loom up’, as the sailors term it, into ships of the line.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 112 Still the summit loomed above us.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 134 A mist through which Mr. Inspector loomed vague and large.
1900 J. G. Frazer Pausanias 53 The haze through which the sun's disc looms red and lurid.
b. figurative and of immaterial things.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [verb (intransitive)] > be imminent
comeOE
nigha1225
to draw nearc1330
approachc1374
drawa1375
to stand ina1382
to stand ona1382
instand1382
to draw ona1450
proacha1450
to draw nigha1470
to fall at handa1535
to hang by (on, upon) a threada1538
instant1541
to prick fast upon1565
impend1674
simmer1703
depend1710
loom1827
to knock about1866
to come up1909
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] > have threatening aspect
loura1593
frown1642
beetle1858
loom1875
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1097 But, lo My Liege: O Courage! there Hee coms: What Ray of Honour round about him looms!
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 6 Reasons..which lowme so big in some mens eyes.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 7 July (1941) 72 Cash affairs loom well in the offing.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. ix. 129 Thus loom on my imagination those happier days of our city.
1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. 101 The facts which loom so large in the dawning light.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 26 Political difficulties..were looming at no great distance.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 42 Shrunk to atom size, That which loomed immense to fancy low before my reason lies.
c. causative. To make to loom or appear unnaturally large. rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (transitive)] > make appear large
gigantize1630
loom1817
magnify1853
giantize1864
1817 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 473 It possesses the quality of looming, or magnifying objects,..making the small billets of wood appear as formidable as trees.
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