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noun

Loom n. (Zool.) See Loon, the bird.

Loom n.

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. "Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff."

(Naut.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.

Loom n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

verb

Loom v. i. (past & past part. loomed; pres. part. looming)

To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high. "Awful she looms, the terror of the main."

To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. "On no occasion does he (Paul) loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context."

To become imminent; to impend.

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Etymology of 'Loom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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