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Leash :: Leash (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom..

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..

Warping :: Warping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of War.

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

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning..

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..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

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

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

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise..

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.

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

Guess Warp :: Guess warp () A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

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

Mouldwarp :: Mouldwarp (n.) See Mole the animal.

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

Casting :: Casting (n.) The warping of a board.

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

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

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

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