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

Unprejudiced :: Unprejudiced (a.) Not warped or biased by prejudice; as, an unprejudiced judgment..

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects..

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..

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..

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

Helicoid :: Helicoid (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object..

Bier :: Bier (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

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

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

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

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

Gauche :: Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

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.

Moldwarp :: Moldwarp (n.) Alt. of Mouldwar.

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

Detortion :: Detortion (n.) The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping..

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. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

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