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Word entry · 4 letters

weft

Best crossword clue

"Crosswise weaving threads"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /wɛft/Part of speech nounSorted eftwStarts with WEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

Word origin

From Middle English wefte, from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną. Equivalent to weave + -t (abstract nominal suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • Other techniques for shaping included angling one or both loom bars, adding extra wefts, or adjusting warp tension.
  • Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles.
  • Then, she held up the hair as it would look on my head. She positioned it like a pro, holding wefts of human hair so that it looked like it grew from my scalp.

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