单词 | to keep, take the lease |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep, take the lease 2. The crossing of the warp-threads in a loom; the place at which the warp-threads cross. to keep, take the lease. (The corresponding Spitalfields term is cross.) ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1284 The lease being carefully tied up, affords a guide to the weaver for inserting his lease-rods. 1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vii**/2 Taking the ‘lease’ previously to the yarns being submitted to the sizing process. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield s.v. Lays,..When the warp is made ready for the loom, the threads are separated, and passed alternately above and below a string called the laysband. Where the threads cross, or perhaps the whole arrangement itself, may be considered the lays. 1888 C. P. Brooks Cotton Manuf. 30 The keeping of the lease. The latter term will be understood by all connected with weaving as being the separation of the threads alternately. < as lemmas |
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