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Warpath :: Warpath (n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

Raddle :: Raddle (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom..

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

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

End :: End (n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

Pace :: Pace (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web..

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

Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..

Separator :: Separator (n.) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc..

Fray :: Fray (v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly..

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

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

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

Heddle :: Heddle (v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving..

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

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

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking..

Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle..

Warping :: Warping (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, warps..

Renter :: Renter (v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry..

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