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Sinker :: Sinker (n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles..

Loop :: Loop (n.) A small, narrow opening; a loophole..

Cloop :: Cloop (n.) The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

Eye-splice :: Eye-splice (n.) A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice..

Bearing Rein :: Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Nap :: Nap (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet..

Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

Looping :: Looping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loo.

Heddle-eye :: Heddle-eye (n.) The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

Trevat :: Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.

Looper :: Looper (n.) The larva of any species of geometrid moths. See Geometrid.

Loop :: Loop (n.) A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.

Crupper :: Crupper (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger..

Knit :: Knit (v. i.) To form a fabric by interlacing yarn or thread; to weave by making knots or loops.

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (n.) The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

Latching :: Latching (n.) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket..

Looping :: Looping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loop.

Lug :: Lug (n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

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