Definitions
A machine used for weaving thread into cloth.
Word origin
Shetland dialect, denoting a diver or guillemot, from Old Norse lómr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl”) (expressive root).
Used in a sentence
“heirloom, workloom”
“January 8, 1751, Samuel Johnson, "The Mischiefs of Total Idleness" in The Rambler Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff.”
“The clouds loomed over the mountains.”
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01“Weaving machine”4 letters
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