| 单词 | ten-shaft |
| 释义 | > as lemmasten-shaft a. Weaving. Each of a pair of long laths between which the heddles are stretched; also applied to the pair taken together. Also in parasynthetic compounds with prefixed numeral, as four-shaft, ten-shaft adjs., designating makes of cloth.Although no early examples have been found, the sense is certainly old; the German schaft and Dutch schacht are similarly used. Cf. ‘thre-schaptyd cloth, triplex’ ( Promp. Parv., c1440): see three adj. and n. Compounds 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > other parts studdlelOE staff1338 trendle14.. trindle1483 cylinder?a1560 harness1572 mail1731 mounture1731 leaf1807 march1807 dropbox1823 neck-twine1827 mounting1835 shaft1839 Jack1848 selvage-protector1863 serpent1878 take-up motiona1884 swell1894 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > woven > woven with specific number of web shafts three-shaftedc1440 four-shaft1904 ten-shaft1904 two-shafted- 1801 J. Butterworth in A. Barlow Weaving (1878) 317 The generality of weavers couple the first and third healds or shafts, and so are enabled to weave it with only two lams.] 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1230 The heddles being stretched between two shafts of wood, all the heddles connected by the same shafts are called a leaf. 1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 173 With four shafts and twenty pairs of leashes..the effect that may be produced will be noticed at ABCDE and F. 1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 173 At D the leashes are raised, and the shafts also. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 344/1 [Obs. in W. Yorks.] Long thin flat rods of wood, upon which the ‘gems’ or ‘healds’ were stretched. The stretching was effected by a ‘top’ and ‘bodom’ shaft, and the whole was also termed a ‘shaft’, when describing the pattern or make of cloth to be produced, as ‘four shaft’, ‘ten shaft’, &c. < as lemmas |
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