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Loom

noun
1.
A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile.
verb
(past & past part. loomed; pres. part. looming)
1.
Come into view indistinctly, often threateningly.
2.
Appear very large or occupy a commanding position.  Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower.  "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"
3.
Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing.  Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover.
4.
Weave on a loom.



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"Loom" Quotes from Famous Books



... de win' when de sassafras bloom, When de little co'n fluttah in de row, When de robin in de tree, like er young gal in de loom, Sing sweet, sing ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden

... I make answer, No part whatsoever. I am a farmer's wife, a working woman; You see my spinning-wheel, you see my loom, You know the duties of a farmer's wife, And are not ignorant that my life among you Has been without reproach until this day. Is it ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... (which cost, I was told, five million francs) we drove to the Salpetriere, which in the remote ages before the war, was an old people's home. Its extent, comprising, as it does, court after court, gardens, masses of buildings which loom beyond and yet beyond, not only inspired awed reflections of the number of old that must need charity in Paris but made one wonder where they were at the present moment, now that the Salpetriere had been turned into a hospital. Perhaps, being very ...
— The Living Present • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... turn a mill-wheel that the wool-worker could establish his factory; and cotton was as yet spun by hand in the cottages, the "spinsters" of the family sitting with their distaffs round the weaver's hand-loom. ...
— History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) - Modern England, 1760-1815 • John Richard Green

... sense, includes all kinds of stuffs woven in the loom, whether the threads be of wool, cotton, hemp, ...
— A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery • Benziger Brothers


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