LOOM

The well-known machine for producing cloth by the interweaving a series of parallel threads which run lengthwise, called the warp or chain, with other threads thrown transverselylwith the shuttle, called the woof or weft. Under the head Weaving will be found a notice of the history of the loom, and the numerous improvements that have taken place in its construction from the earliest times down to the invention of Jacquard. [s. 696]