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handloom

[ hand-loom ]

noun

  1. a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of handloom1

First recorded in 1825–35; hand + loom 1
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Example Sentences

Handloom-weaving is almost extinct, but several cotton mills have been opened.

Who should know so well as I that it is but a handloom compared to the great guns that reverberate through the age to come?

The handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time.

A white-livered Handloom as I dare say, or a son of a gun of a factory slave.

The handloom, the bobbin, the reel, and the spinning-wheel keep right on as before.

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