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

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

Warping :: Warping (n.) The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

Stripe :: Stripe (n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance..

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..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter..

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

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

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

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

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

Tapestry :: Tapestry (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery..

Heck :: Heck (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine..

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

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

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

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

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..

Unwarp :: Unwarp (v. t.) To restore from a warped state; to cause to be linger warped.

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

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