Weft

(-) imp. & p. p. of Wave.

(n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.

(n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.

(n.) A web; a thing woven.

巴雷特校对

• This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For the making of ribbons and other kind of narrow ware, the needle power loom has been invented, in which the fine weft thread is carried through the web by a needle instead of a shuttle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Thus finally were means provided to supply the demand for the weft yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This loom, as usual, employs a single shuttle, but as the weft becomes exhausted another bobbin is automatically supplied to the shuttle without stopping the operation of the machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In England the warp was linen and the weft was cotton. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the cloth of the ancient East the warp and weft were both of cotton. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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