Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric; woof.
- noun Yarn used for the weft.
- noun Woven fabric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The threads, taken together, which run across the web from side to side, or from selvage to selvage. Also called
woof . - noun In botany, a name sometimes given to a felt-like stratum produced in certain fungi by abundant closely interwoven hyphæ.
- noun Same as
waif - noun An obsolete form of the preterit and past participle of wave.
- noun A dialectal form of
waft , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
- noun A web; a thing woven.
- imp. & p. p. of
wave . - noun obsolete A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun weaving The
horizontal threads that areinterlaced through thewarp in awoven fabric . - noun weaving The
yarn used for the weft; thefill . - noun A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Good thing I have a knack for reweaving myself; the pattern may not always match up, and the texture may not be as smooth, but the weft is always strong and binds the warp together for another round.
Stuff archmage 2005
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Its weft is a rich one, deriving from the poet's wide-ranging contacts with literature, history and reality.
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A word for the uninitiated...warping the loom means putting the yarn on the loom so you can weave with what's called the weft yarn.
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A word for the uninitiated...warping the loom means putting the yarn on the loom so you can weave with what's called the weft yarn.
June 2008 2008
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Here the woof has been taken once to and fro; a movement called a weft or a course, one way only, goes by the name of a half pass or a shoot.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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Applying the weft is a serious uncommon skill which adds to the cost of the hair.
Vanguard News 2009
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A single cross thread known as a weft is passed down the entire length of the fabric bolt rather than using several wefts to weave the cloth.
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On the eaft fide of thefe mountains lie the territories pofTefifed by our fouth - ern colonies •, on the weft are the territories of the Ohio; and on the fouth are what we call the terri - tories of the Mifllflippi; the two laft being divided from one another by the Weftern or Chickefaw mountains, which run through them from Caro - lina to the Miffifiippi.
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TrIochadh mbodhahach, now called weft Barryroe in Carbury in the County ox Corke, the an - cient Eftate of the O Cobhtaigh or Cowhigs, & of the O Fichio - ilaWh, or Fields.
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To the fouth, it is guarded from approach by the fteep - nefs of the hill on which it Hands; and on this fide the windows command a very fine view of the vale through which the Arun meanders;, on the north - weft, which is flanked by a very deep foffe, is the citadel, erected on another and fmaller hill, which overlooks the caftle: many of the aniient buildings have mouldered into ruin; but there are ftill the vcftiges of a very large and elegant banquctting hall, and the gateway is in a tolerable ftate of prefervation.
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778
Dan337 commented on the word weft
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January 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word weft
Ha! Woof.
January 28, 2011