work-loomn.
/ˈwəːkluːm/, U.S. /ˈwərkˌlum/, Scottish English /ˈwʌrklum/ Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
A tool or implement, esp. one used in manual labour. Cf. loom n.1 1a.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > [noun]
toolc888
loomc900
ginc1300
instrumentc1392
machinamentc1425
work-loomc1425
oustil1477
mistera1525
appliance1565
device1570
utensil1604
conveniency1660
contrivance1667
ruler1692
machine1707
implements1767
dial1839
dog1859
c1425 Noah's Ark in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 21 Unlusty I am..Worklooms for to work and weeld.
1475–6 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 33 Gude and sufficiand graith and werkloumys.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xi. 82 The lust of all sic werklomis was adew.
a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) iii. 23 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 155 That warklum quyt [sc. a pen].
1614 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scotl. (1878) 166 Ony toullis workloomes or ony prouisioun belonging..to the saidis mynes and workis.
1691 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 140 4 pund steell for ye work loomes.
1786 R. Burns Poems 58 The best wark-lume i' the house.
1796 R. Gall Tint Quey in Twa Cuckolds & Tint Quey 14 [He] gat his wark-looms a' in tune To ca' some tackets i' his shoon.
1874 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecd. 615/2 Use nae warkloom made by the hand o' man on the Lord's day.
1921 M. Argo Janet's Choice i. ii. 17 It will seen be beginnin' to gloam. Look ye oot the wark-leems, and I'll licht my pipe.
1987 B. Holton tr. S. Nai'an Men o the Mossflow iv, in Edinb. Rev. Feb. 84 Hou muckle siller wad ye want for baith the twae warklumes?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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