| 单词 | breast roll |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreast roll breast roll n. Weaving (now chiefly historical) the cylinder or roller in a loom on which the cloth is wound as it is woven; cf. cloth-beam at beam n.1 4. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > beam > for cloth web-beamOE breast beam1688 breast roll1763 1763 tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature (ed. 3) VI. Explan. of Plates p. xxx To this Breast-bar is fastened a Breast-roll, on which the Ribbon passes to the Knee-roll, a little lower down. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 215 The cloth-beam or breast-roll to which the ends of the warp are attached. 1990 Irish Arts Rev. Yearbk. 1990–1 135/1 Some unusual terms which originated with the Huguenots [sc. those who settled in Dublin] survived to the present among the weavers of the Liberties, terms such as ‘rockatee’ (the part of the cloth between the breast roll and the cloth roll). < as lemmas |
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