weft
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- underweft noun
Etymology
Origin of weft
before 900; Middle English, Old English; akin to weave
Example Sentences
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His prowess and his reputation were magnificent — a magnificent guy — just part of the warp and weft of all good music that came through there.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
“These women’s stories emerged from history. Using the metaphor of warp and weft, these women are living in history. They are weaving their lives through history. It’s influencing them. They are influencing it.”
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
Cody was weaned on weaving, tapping weft yarns for her nine-foot-tall textiles with the same wood comb she started out with at age 5.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
Holding a heddle rod to separate the warp threads, she draws the continuous horizontal weft thread in and out of one or more warp threads.
From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022
Everything happened too fast—a bobbin of weft thread lasted hardly five minutes before it had to be replaced—and it was painfully deafening.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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