单词 | shop of frames |
释义 | > as lemmasshop of frames (looms) (machines) c. In full shop of frames (looms) (machines). A building or room fitted with frames or looms used in the weaving industries, esp. one that is rented by workers. Now historical and rare.In quot. 1614 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ 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 1614 J. Sylvester tr. J. Bertaut Panaretus 62 in Parl. Vertues Royal To build faire Shops for th'Helyconian Loomes. 1749 R. Cox Let. shewing Method to establish Linen-manuf. 22 The Husband quickly erected a Shop of Looms, to work up his Wife's Yarn. 1791 I. Wood Acct. Shrewsbury House of Ind. 20 Weavers were likewise engaged; a shop with looms fitted up for their use. a1813 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur More Lett. from Amer. Farmer (1995) 62 The Truely Economical Farmer, has allways what we call a shop, that is, an house big Enough to contain a Loom... In the weaving season our wifes can..weave. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 181/1 Other persons are renters of what is termed a ‘shop of frames’, containing eight or ten frames. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iv. 142 There are in various parts of the town [sc. Paisley] ‘shops’ of looms. 1924 D. A. Barker tr. E. Halévy in E. I. Watkin & D. A. Barker tr. E. Halévy Hist. Eng. People 1815 II. ii. ii. 265 Such a ‘shop of frames’ or ‘shop of machines,’ as it was termed at Nottingham, was of course simply a factory in embryo. 1947 A. M. Henderson & T. Parsons tr. M. Weber Theory Social & Econ. Organization ii. xxv. 264 A single shop of looms..could not..lead to an improvement in the prospects of profit for the entrepreneur. < as lemmas |
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