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In ribbon-weaving: A cord which pulls the high-lisses (lisse, n.2) up.
A part of a ribbon loom: (probably) = tumbler, n. 13i. Obsolete. rare.
A kind of small shuttle used in ribbon-weaving, etc. (Cf. swivel-loom n. at compounds 3.)