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looper
[ loo-per ]
noun
- a person or thing that loops something or forms loops:
The strands of wire are coiled by an automatic looper.
- a hook-shaped mechanism in a sewing machine that enables stitching by drawing the upper and lower threads together.
- Baseball. blooper ( def 3a ):
He was robbed of an RBI looper by the speediest shortstop in the league.
ˈlooper
/ ˈluːpə /
Example Sentences
I have been told that President Kruger was on this historical trek, a Voor-looper, or little boy who guides the leading oxen.
These looper caterpillars cannot shorten nor lengthen their segments at will, as other caterpillars, but only bend their bodies.
It covers the ground pretty quickly, buckling and unbuckling by turns, very much after the manner of the looper caterpillar.
It is a "Looper," greyish at first and turning green later, and nearly an inch long when full grown.
The gates having been opened to them, a voet-looper, a courier, went to inform Messire de Lumey of their coming.
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