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

Weft :: Weft (n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.

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..

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

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

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

Toilinette :: Toilinette (n.) A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for waistcoats..

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

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..

Warpage :: Warpage (n.) The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors..

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

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.

Cast :: Cast (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp..

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

Heddling :: Heddling (vb. n.) The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

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

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

Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.

Cassinette :: Cassinette (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk..

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