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loom

11 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) loom (noun)
  2. 2) loom (verb)
  3. 3) loom (noun)
  4. belt loom (noun)
  5. box-loom (noun)
  6. Jacquard loom (noun)
  7. lappet loom (noun)
  8. needle loom (noun)
  9. punch loom (noun)
  10. ribbon loom (noun)
  11. velvet loom (noun)

1loom

noun \ˈlüm\

Definition of LOOM

: a frame or machine for interlacing at right angles two or more sets of threads or yarns to form a cloth

Origin of LOOM

Middle English lome tool, loom, from Old English gelōma tool; akin to Middle Dutch allame tool
First Known Use: 15th century

Other Handicraft Terms

biscuit, darn, tambour, wrought

Rhymes with LOOM

bloom, boom, broom, brume, combe, cwm, doom, flume, fume, gloom, glume, groom, khoum, neume, plume, rheum, room, spume, tomb, toom, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

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