See weft on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1964 February 6, Kurt Greenwood, “New looms that streamline weaving”, in New Scientist, page 356:",
"text": "It is all the more remarkable therefore that in one respect — weft colours — some of the pirnless looms are more versatile than conventional machines. Figure 6 shows the colour mechanism of a conventional loom designed to weave six colours of weft (there is never any problem about colour patterning in the warp).",
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"ref": "1979, Eric Broudy, The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present, page 81:",
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"word": "trama"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "fill",
"word": "kudelanka"
},
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"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "fill",
"word": "kuerihma"
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"code": "pl",
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"word": "wątek"
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"code": "pl",
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"word": "nić wątku"
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"feminine"
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"word": "țesătură"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "utóčnaja prjáža",
"sense": "fill",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "уто́чная пря́жа"
}
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:",
"text": "The gentle Lady, loose at randon left, / The greene-wood long did walke, and wander wide / At wilde aduenture, like a forlorne weft,",
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"ref": "1625 (date written), Iohn Fletcher, [Philip Massinger], The Elder Brother. A Comedie. […], London: […] F[elix] K[ingston] for J[ohn] W[aterson] and J[ohn] B[enson], published 1637, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, signature H3, recto:",
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