单词 | web-beam |
释义 | web-beamn. Now rare. In a loom: the beam or roller to which the warp threads are attached and around which the woven cloth is wrapped; = warp-beam n. at warp n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > beam > for cloth web-beamOE breast beam1688 breast roll1763 OE Harley Gloss. (Bodl. fragm.) in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. (1961) 60 447 Insubuli, quia infra et supra sunt uel quia insubulantur : webbeamas. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 127 Liciatorium, lorh uel webbeam. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 37v Liciatorium, lignum quod super licium voluitur, i. a web bem. a1500 Eng. Glosses MS BL Add 37075 (1984) 696 Laciatorium, a webbeme. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 835/2 From this opening the web passes to the knee-roll or web-beam, round which it is rolled by means of the spokes. 1862 Hinds County (Mississippi) Gaz. 30 July 1/5 My improvement is in the web beam, and it accomplishes two very important objects. 1871 J. Collins Nature's Aristocracy x. 151 From the brushes it passes over a large heated copper roller which dries the starch; and then is wound upon another enormous spool called a ‘web-beam’. 2003 L. K. McClure Courtesans at Table 214 The joke puns on the double meaning of the word histos, in the sense of mast or pole and web-beam of the loom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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