caamn.

/kɑːm/

Forms: Also calm.

Etymology: By Jamieson identified with calm n.² a mould, or frame; but this is doubtful.

The heddles (see heddle n.) of a loom.

1792 A. Adam Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) 523 The principal part of the machinery of a loom, vulgarly called the Caam or Hiddles, composed of eyed or hooked threads through which the warp passes, and which, being alternately raised and depressed by the motion of the feet on the Treadles, raises or depresses the warp, and makes the shed for transmitting the shuttle with the weft, seems also to have been called Licia.

1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Calm

Derivatives

caaming n.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Caam, the weaver's reed. The sley or slaie. Caaming, the setting of the reed by the disposing of the warp-threads.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	caam
释义	caamn. /kɑːm/ Forms: Also calm. Etymology: By Jamieson identified with calm n.² a mould, or frame; but this is doubtful. The heddles (see heddle n.) of a loom. Π 1792 A. Adam Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) 523 The principal part of the machinery of a loom, vulgarly called the Caam or Hiddles, composed of eyed or hooked threads through which the warp passes, and which, being alternately raised and depressed by the motion of the feet on the Treadles, raises or depresses the warp, and makes the shed for transmitting the shuttle with the weft, seems also to have been called Licia. 1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Calm Derivatives caaming n. Π 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Caam, the weaver's reed. The sley or slaie. Caaming, the setting of the reed by the disposing of the warp-threads. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1792
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