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Melton :: Melton (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

Cram :: Cram (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Abb :: Abb (n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb..

Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

Picker :: Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp..

Two-ply :: Two-ply (a.) Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft..

Warp :: Warp (v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17..

Cast :: Cast (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..

Card :: Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard..

Warp :: Warp (v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..

Twill :: Twill (v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving..

Lea :: Lea (n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

Warp :: Warp (v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board..

Beam :: Beam (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam..

Trawlwarp :: Trawlwarp (n.) A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet..

Swaddle :: Swaddle (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby..

Warped :: Warped (imp. & p. p.) of War.

Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

Warp :: Warp (v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed..

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