† porryn.
Weaving. Obsolete.
In silk weaving: the portion of the warp lying between the warp-roll or beam and the back of the heddles or harness through which the threads pass.
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1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 166 A power of shortening the porry occasionally.
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 274 Removing all roughnesses and inequalities in the warp threads, or, as the weavers call it, picking the porry.
1849 H. Mayhew in Morning Chron. 23 Oct. 5/4 Under the ‘porry’ of another loom was stretched a..clothes line.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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