reed

en-noun

reed (countable and uncountable, plural reeds)

From Middle English red, reed, from Old English hrēod, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud, of uncertain origin.
Akin to Saterland Frisian Rait (“reed”), West Frisian reid (“reed”), Dutch riet (“reed”), German Ried (“reed”). No cognates in North Germanic languages, but the existence of an otherwise unattested Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌳 (*hriud) was supposed by the brothers Grimm. They also theorised that the word may have a relation to the retas mentioned in Noctes Atticae (Aulus Gellius). The measuring reed sense is the translation of Akkadian qanûm ("cane") used in the Bible and elsewhere.

Coordinate term: sley

(countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.


dent

From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.


beanie

From bean (“the head”) + -ie (diminutive suffix).

suf

Enrique Iglesias is often seen wearing a beanie.

The sensation was curious. The bullet passed through her thigh, cleanly, severing the dust-bones and making the second self stumble for a moment before knitting the injury back together. It didn't hurt — she'd have needed an entire quarry's worth of sand for nociception — but she still felt the hole appear, still felt the tiny slug passing through, still felt the quivering impact and the explosive exit. She felt the next three as well, and then she was standing over a cowering woman in a black leather jacket and beanie with a look of complete and total bafflement on her face.

2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

(clothing) A cap that fits the head closely, usually knitted from wool.


beater

From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English bēatere (“a beater; boxer, fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat + -er. Related to beetle (“a type of mallet”).

inh

(weaving) A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.


pick

From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck.
Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)).

so many picks to an inch

(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.


heading

(sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.


press

en-verb

press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)

presses (present singular third-person)
pressing (participle present)
pressed (participle past)
pressed (past)
prest (participle past)
prest (past)

From Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þrǣstan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress”).

cog

(transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.


conservative

en-adj

conservative (comparative more conservative, superlative most conservative)

more conservative (comparative)
most conservative (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.

(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.


pique

en-noun

pique (countable and uncountable, plural piques)

A variant of piqué, borrowed from French piqué (“(noun) ribbed fabric; (ballet) step on to the point of the leading foot without bending the knee; (adjective) backstitched; (cooking) larded”), Middle French piqué (“quilted”), a noun use of the past participle of piquer (“to prick, sting; to decorate with stitches; to quilt; to stitch (fabric) together; to lard (meat)”); see further at etymology 1.

der

Pique and linen also accented several coats and oftentimes were both detachable and formed an overcollar covering a collar made from the coat fabric.

1967, Ann Helen Stroup, An Investigation of the Dress of American Children from 1930 Through 1941 with Emphasis on Factors Influencing Change, page 195:

(sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).


plaid

en-noun

plaid (countable and uncountable, plural plaids)

From Scots plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of ply. Scottish Gaelic plaide (“blanket”) is probably a borrowing from Scots.
Also compare Scottish Gaelic peall (“covering, veil, blanket”) << Latin pellis (“hide, covering”), but the OED finds the sound changes problematic.

cog

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

(textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.


pleat

From Middle English, from a variant of plait, from Old French pleit. Doublet of plait.

(sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.


golf

golfik (diminutive)
golf (nominative singular)
golfy (nominative plural)
golfa (genitive singular)
golfu (genitive singular)
golfów (genitive plural)
golfowi (dative singular)
golfom (dative plural)
golf (accusative singular)
golfy (accusative plural)
golfem (instrumental singular)
golfami (instrumental plural)
golfie (locative singular)
golfach (locative plural)
golfie (singular vocative)
golfy (plural vocative)

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from French col roulé.


take up

en-verb

take up (third-person singular simple present takes up, present participle taking up, simple past took up, past participle taken up)

takes up (present singular third-person)
taking up (participle present)
took up (past)
taken up (participle past)
take one up (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-take up.wav

elfogad

to accept (a proposal, offer, request, etc.) from

If we take up the sleeves a bit, that shirt will look much better on you.

(transitive, sewing) To shorten (a garment), especially by hemming.


yo

(knitting) Alternative form of YO:
Abbreviation of yarnover.


yo

yo (third-person singular simple present yos, present participle yoing, simple past and past participle yoed)

yos (present singular third-person)
yoing (participle present)
yoed (participle past)
yoed (past)


glove

→ Maori: karapu

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.

gloss

"glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">glōfan</i> (“gloves”)

der

I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.

The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.

(clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.


pocket

→ Japanese: ポケット

→ Welsh: poced

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

(clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.


ok

ok (indefinite nominative singular)
oks (genitive indefinite singular)
oket (definite nominative singular)
okets (definite genitive singular)
ok (indefinite nominative plural)
oks (genitive indefinite plural)
oken (definite nominative plural)
okens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Doublet of zygot.

(clothing) a part of a shirt draped over the shoulders


vend

vend f (definite singular venda, indefinite plural vender, definite plural vendene)

venda (definite singular)
vender (indefinite plural)
vendene (definite plural)

(weaving) a diagonal line in a woven fabric


boxing glove

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boxing glove.wav

(boxing, clothing) A padded mitten, designed to protect the hand while punching, and worn in boxing.


כפפת איגרוף

he-noun

כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף

כפפות איגרוף

כִּפְפוֹת אִגְרוּף

כפפת איגרוף / כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף • (kiffát igrúf) f (plural indefinite כפפות איגרוף / כִּפְפוֹת אִגְרוּף)

כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף (canonical)
kiffát igrúf (romanization)
כפפות איגרוף (indefinite plural)
כִּפְפוֹת אִגְרוּף (indefinite plural)
כִּפְפַת אִגְרוּף (alternative)

From כְּפָפָה (kfafá) + איגרוף /אִגְרוּף (igrúf).

af

איגרוף//אִגְרוּף

boxing glove
boxing glove#English:_Q895679


szem

szemek (plural)
szem (nominative singular)
szemek (nominative plural)
szemet (accusative singular)
szemeket (accusative plural)
szemnek (dative singular)
szemeknek (dative plural)
szemmel (instrumental singular)
szemekkel (instrumental plural)
szemért (causal-final singular)
szemekért (causal-final plural)
szemmé (singular translative)
szemekké (plural translative)
szemig (singular terminative)
szemekig (plural terminative)
szemként (essive-formal singular)
szemekként (essive-formal plural)
szemben (inessive singular)
szemekben (inessive plural)
szemen (singular superessive)
szemeken (plural superessive)
szemnél (adessive singular)
szemeknél (adessive plural)
szembe (illative singular)
szemekbe (illative plural)
szemre (singular sublative)
szemekre (plural sublative)
szemhez (allative singular)
szemekhez (allative plural)
szemből (elative singular)
szemekből (elative plural)
szemről (delative singular)
szemekről (delative plural)
szemtől (ablative singular)
szemektől (ablative plural)
szemé (singular)
szemeké (plural)
szeméi (singular)
szemekéi (plural)
szemem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
szemeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
szemed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
szemeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
szeme (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
szemei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
szemünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
szemeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
szemetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
szemeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
szemük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
szemeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Proto-Uralic *śilmä, then from szimi, via szüm in one dialect (such as the one used in the Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary), resulting in dialectal szöm, as well as via szëm and the current, standard szem from another dialect.

Megszámolta a szemeket és fürgén csattogtatta meg a hosszú kötőtűket.

1902, György Lőrinczy, “Jolánka mosolyog”, in Megtépett fészkek:

She counted the stitches and started nimbly clicking the long needles.

(knitting) stitch (a single turn of the thread round a needle)


ease

From Middle English ese, eise, aise, from Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), from Old French eise, aise (“elbow room; opportunity”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Apparently related to Provençal ais, Italian agio and asio, Sicilian aciu and Portuguese azo. Sometimes ascribed to Vulgar Latin *āsia or *āsium, possibly from Latin ānsa (“handle, haft”) or Frankish *ansiju (“handle, loophole, eyelet; cup-handle; arms akimbo, elbow room”), but more often derived from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjacēns (“adjacent, neighbouring”), present participle of adjaceō (“lie next to, border on”), though the forms and senses are difficult to trace clearly.
Alternatively, possibly from a non-Latin source such as Germanic or Celtic on the basis of the conflicting forms which appear in various Romance languages. Compare Old English īeþe (“easy”), Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐌹 (azēti, “ease; pleasure”), *𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*azēts, “easy”), Breton eaz, ez (“easy”), Irish adhais (“easy; leisure”). See also eath.
The verb is from Middle English esen, ultimately of the same origin.

der

Add some ease to the waist measurement.

Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly:

(clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.


col

→ Hausa: kwal

Inherited from Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of cou.


stripe

From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).

cog

(weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.


heck

hecks (plural)
hack (alternative)
hecc (alternative)

(weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.


pala

Borrowed from Latin pāla (“shovel, bezel”). Doublet of pá.

bor+

(clothing) yoke (of a shirt, dress or pants)


LT

en-noun

LT (countable and uncountable, plural LTs)


kudos

kudos (nominative singular)
kudokset (nominative plural)
kudos (accusative nominative singular)
kudokset (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksen (accusative genitive singular)
kudokset (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksen (genitive singular)
kudosten (genitive plural)
kudoksien (genitive plural)
kudosta (partitive singular)
kudoksia (partitive plural)
kudoksessa (inessive singular)
kudoksissa (inessive plural)
kudoksesta (elative singular)
kudoksista (elative plural)
kudokseen (illative singular)
kudoksiin (illative plural)
kudoksella (adessive singular)
kudoksilla (adessive plural)
kudokselta (ablative singular)
kudoksilta (ablative plural)
kudokselle (allative singular)
kudoksille (allative plural)
kudoksena (essive singular)
kudoksina (essive plural)
kudokseksi (singular translative)
kudoksiksi (plural translative)
kudoksetta (abessive singular)
kudoksitta (abessive plural)
kudoksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kudokseni (nominative singular)
kudokseni (nominative plural)
kudokseni (accusative nominative singular)
kudokseni (accusative nominative plural)
kudokseni (accusative genitive singular)
kudokseni (accusative genitive plural)
kudokseni (genitive singular)
kudosteni (genitive plural)
kudoksieni (genitive plural)
kudostani (partitive singular)
kudoksiani (partitive plural)
kudoksessani (inessive singular)
kudoksissani (inessive plural)
kudoksestani (elative singular)
kudoksistani (elative plural)
kudokseeni (illative singular)
kudoksiini (illative plural)
kudoksellani (adessive singular)
kudoksillani (adessive plural)
kudokseltani (ablative singular)
kudoksiltani (ablative plural)
kudokselleni (allative singular)
kudoksilleni (allative plural)
kudoksenani (essive singular)
kudoksinani (essive plural)
kudoksekseni (singular translative)
kudoksikseni (plural translative)
kudoksettani (abessive singular)
kudoksittani (abessive plural)
kudoksineni (comitative plural)
kudoksesi (nominative singular)
kudoksesi (nominative plural)
kudoksesi (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksesi (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksesi (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksesi (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksesi (genitive singular)
kudostesi (genitive plural)
kudoksiesi (genitive plural)
kudostasi (partitive singular)
kudoksiasi (partitive plural)
kudoksessasi (inessive singular)
kudoksissasi (inessive plural)
kudoksestasi (elative singular)
kudoksistasi (elative plural)
kudokseesi (illative singular)
kudoksiisi (illative plural)
kudoksellasi (adessive singular)
kudoksillasi (adessive plural)
kudokseltasi (ablative singular)
kudoksiltasi (ablative plural)
kudoksellesi (allative singular)
kudoksillesi (allative plural)
kudoksenasi (essive singular)
kudoksinasi (essive plural)
kudokseksesi (singular translative)
kudoksiksesi (plural translative)
kudoksettasi (abessive singular)
kudoksittasi (abessive plural)
kudoksinesi (comitative plural)
kudoksemme (nominative singular)
kudoksemme (nominative plural)
kudoksemme (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksemme (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksemme (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksemme (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksemme (genitive singular)
kudostemme (genitive plural)
kudoksiemme (genitive plural)
kudostamme (partitive singular)
kudoksiamme (partitive plural)
kudoksessamme (inessive singular)
kudoksissamme (inessive plural)
kudoksestamme (elative singular)
kudoksistamme (elative plural)
kudokseemme (illative singular)
kudoksiimme (illative plural)
kudoksellamme (adessive singular)
kudoksillamme (adessive plural)
kudokseltamme (ablative singular)
kudoksiltamme (ablative plural)
kudoksellemme (allative singular)
kudoksillemme (allative plural)
kudoksenamme (essive singular)
kudoksinamme (essive plural)
kudokseksemme (singular translative)
kudoksiksemme (plural translative)
kudoksettamme (abessive singular)
kudoksittamme (abessive plural)
kudoksinemme (comitative plural)
kudoksenne (nominative singular)
kudoksenne (nominative plural)
kudoksenne (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksenne (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksenne (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksenne (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksenne (genitive singular)
kudostenne (genitive plural)
kudoksienne (genitive plural)
kudostanne (partitive singular)
kudoksianne (partitive plural)
kudoksessanne (inessive singular)
kudoksissanne (inessive plural)
kudoksestanne (elative singular)
kudoksistanne (elative plural)
kudokseenne (illative singular)
kudoksiinne (illative plural)
kudoksellanne (adessive singular)
kudoksillanne (adessive plural)
kudokseltanne (ablative singular)
kudoksiltanne (ablative plural)
kudoksellenne (allative singular)
kudoksillenne (allative plural)
kudoksenanne (essive singular)
kudoksinanne (essive plural)
kudokseksenne (singular translative)
kudoksiksenne (plural translative)
kudoksettanne (abessive singular)
kudoksittanne (abessive plural)
kudoksinenne (comitative plural)
kudoksensa (nominative singular)
kudoksensa (nominative plural)
kudoksensa (accusative nominative singular)
kudoksensa (accusative nominative plural)
kudoksensa (accusative genitive singular)
kudoksensa (accusative genitive plural)
kudoksensa (genitive singular)
kudostensa (genitive plural)
kudoksiensa (genitive plural)
kudostaan (partitive singular)
kudostansa (partitive singular)
kudoksiaan (partitive plural)
kudoksiansa (partitive plural)
kudoksessaan (inessive singular)
kudoksessansa (inessive singular)
kudoksissaan (inessive plural)
kudoksissansa (inessive plural)
kudoksestaan (elative singular)
kudoksestansa (elative singular)
kudoksistaan (elative plural)
kudoksistansa (elative plural)
kudokseensa (illative singular)
kudoksiinsa (illative plural)
kudoksellaan (adessive singular)
kudoksellansa (adessive singular)
kudoksillaan (adessive plural)
kudoksillansa (adessive plural)
kudokseltaan (ablative singular)
kudokseltansa (ablative singular)
kudoksiltaan (ablative plural)
kudoksiltansa (ablative plural)
kudokselleen (allative singular)
kudoksellensa (allative singular)
kudoksilleen (allative plural)
kudoksillensa (allative plural)
kudoksenaan (essive singular)
kudoksenansa (essive singular)
kudoksinaan (essive plural)
kudoksinansa (essive plural)
kudoksekseen (singular translative)
kudokseksensa (singular translative)
kudoksikseen (plural translative)
kudoksiksensa (plural translative)
kudoksettaan (abessive singular)
kudoksettansa (abessive singular)
kudoksittaan (abessive plural)
kudoksittansa (abessive plural)
kudoksineen (comitative plural)
kudoksinensa (comitative plural)

(textiles) fabric, texture (texture of a cloth)


parka

parkas (plural)
parkee (alternative)
parki (alternative)

→ Afrikaans: parka

→ Chinese: 派克 (pàikè)

→ Dutch: parka

→ Finnish: parka

→ French: parka

→ German: Parka

→ Italian: parka

→ Japanese: パーカ (pāka)

→ Korean: 파카 (paka)

→ Polish: parka

→ Spanish: parka

→ Swedish: parkas

→ Turkish: parka

1780, ultimately from Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Perhaps from Proto-Uralic; see dialectal Finnish parka (“rag, swaddling clothes”), which may be a cognate from Proto-Uralic, or an early borrowing from another Uralic language.

cog

Basir tended to wear a beige suede parka over his shalwar kameez.

2002 January 3, James Meek, London Review of Books:

(clothing) A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.


fiber

en-noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers)

From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.

Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.

(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.


polo

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti پولو (polo).

Maraming reklamo si Arni tungkol sa initiation; sisisihin pa nito si Sid dahil ito ang pumilit sa kanyang sumali sa frat. Magsusuot ng polo si Arni. Halos hindi niya maigalaw ang kanyang braso.

1981, Clodualdo Del Mundo, Writing for Film:

Arni have a lot of complaints about the initiation; he even blamed Sid for forcing him to join the frat. Arni would wear a polo shirt. He could almost not move his arms.


phosphine

phosphine (countable and uncountable, plural phosphines)

(dyeing) Chrysaniline, often in the form of a salt.


flounce

en-verb

flounce (third-person singular simple present flounces, present participle flouncing, simple past and past participle flounced)

flounces (present singular third-person)
flouncing (participle present)
flounced (participle past)
flounced (past)

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Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce.

onomatopoeic

imitative


flounce

imitative

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

(sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.

волан

strip of decorative material along an edge


helmet

→ Korean: 헬멧 (helmet)

→ Palauan: hermet

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਹੈਲਮਟ (hailmaṭ)

Shahmukhi script: ہیلمٹ (hailmaṭ)

→ Swahili: helmeti

→ Welsh: helmed

From Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme (Modern French heaume), equivalent to helm + -et. The Old French is itself of Germanic origin (whence Old English helm). Used in English since the 15th century, it has largely displaced helm as the general word.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter II, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Most speedboarders wear helmets, knee and elbow pads, and occasionally all-in-one aerodynamic suits, to protect themselves.

2009 February 25, Noam Friedlander, “Dangerous sport of speedboarding banned from Malibu streets”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(clothing) A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.

(heraldry) Such a helm when placed above a shield on a coat of arms.


swift

Swift (disambiguation)
swift (bird)
swift (textiles)

From Middle English swift, from Old English swift (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Germanic *swiftaz (“swift; quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weyp- (“to twist; wind around”). Cognate with Icelandic svipta (“to pull quickly”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”). More at swivel.

cog

(textiles) A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.


darn

en-verb

darn (third-person singular simple present darns, present participle darning, simple past and past participle darned)

darns (present singular third-person)
darning (participle present)
darned (participle past)
darned (past)

From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective).

inh

I need to darn these socks again.

He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in reading his courses, dozing, clipping papers, or darning his stockings; which last he performed to admiration.

a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 116:

Does Mother imagine for one moment that she is going to darn all those stockings knotted up on the quilt like a coil of snakes ? She's not.

1920 August 27, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 141:

(transitive, sewing) To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.


fill

en-noun

fill (countable and uncountable, plural fills)

From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.


panel

From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.

cog

(dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.


hals

hals m (definite singular halsen, indefinite plural halser, definite plural halsene)

halsen (definite singular)
halser (indefinite plural)
halsene (definite plural)

From Old Norse hals (“neck”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kólsos.
Cognate with English halse, Dutch hals, German Hals, Swedish hals and Danish hals.

jeg [kjøpte] meg en bluse av hvit musselin, den hadde en blå silkekant i halsen

1975, Gisken Wildenvey, Kjærlighet varer lengst, page 42:

I [bought] a blouse of white muslin, it had a blue silk border at the neck

hun hadde på seg en hvit genser med høy hals

2009, Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 3, page 159:

she was wearing a white sweater with a high neck

(clothing) a garment that covers the neck

(clothing) a neck (the part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.)

(clothing) a type of neckwarmer, primarily for children, which is worn over the head and covers the neck and chest


gola

Inherited from Old Spanish gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”). Doublet of the borrowing gula.


bobble

* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).
* (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix).
Compare bauble.

From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.

2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45:

(knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.


bobble

en-verb

bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

bobbles (present singular third-person)
bobbling (participle present)
bobbled (participle past)
bobbled (past)

You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.

2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:

(knitting, rare) To use the bobble stitch.


doff

doff (third-person singular simple present doffs, present participle doffing, simple past and past participle doffed)

term-label

(chiefly literary and dated except Northern England)

doffs (present singular third-person)
doffing (participle present)
doffed (participle past)
doffed (past)
doff (infinitive)
doff (first-person present singular)
doffed (first-person past singular)
doff (present second-person singular)
doffest (archaic present second-person singular)
doffed (past second-person singular)
doffedst (archaic past second-person singular)
doffs (present singular third-person)
doffeth (archaic present singular third-person)
doffed (past singular third-person)
doff (plural present)
doffed (past plural)
doff (present subjunctive)
doffed (past subjunctive)
doff (imperative present)
doffing (participle present)
doffed (participle past)

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Lipton
Masson Mill
Thomas Lipton
doffing cylinder

PIE word
 *h₂epó
The verb is derived from Late Middle English doffen (“to take off (clothing); to remove (headwear) as a sign of respect; to remove (grease) by skimming”), a contraction of Middle English do off, don off, from Old English dōn of, from dōn (“to do; to put; to take off, remove”) + of (“from; off”). Dōn is derived from Proto-West Germanic *dōn (“to do; to place, put”), from Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do; to make; to place, put”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). By surface analysis, do + off. Compare don (by surface analysis, do + on), dout (do + out), dup (do + up).
The noun is derived from the verb.

свалям

to remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried)

снемам

(transitive) to remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect; (intransitive) to remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect

[…] Calidore perceiuing, thought it beſt / To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke; / And doffing his bright armes, himſelfe addreſt / In ſhepheards vveed, and in his hand he tooke, / In ſtead of ſteelehead ſpeare, a ſhepheards hooke, […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 476:

Thou vveare a Lyons hide, doff it for ſhame, / And hang a Calues skin on thoſe recreant limbes.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 9, column 1:

You haue deceiu'd our truſt, / And made vs doffe our eaſie roabes of peace, / To cruſh our old limbs in vngentle ſteele, / This is not vvell my Lord, this is not vvell.

c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature I2, recto:

[T]hen made him d'off thoſe vveeds: / And ſent the Mightie vnto mightie deeds.

1626, Ovid, “The Thirteenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 259:

Upon a riſing bank I ſat adovvn, / Then doff'd my ſhoe, […]

1714, J[ohn] Gay, “Thursday; or, The Spell”, in The Shepherd’s Week. In Six Pastorals, London: […] R. Burleigh […], →OCLC, page 32, lines 20–21:

The little vvarriors doff the targe and ſpear, […]

1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, London: […] E[dward] & C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVII, page 19:

[J]uſt for fun's ſake, doff your coat and vvaiſtcoat, and ſvvop vvith Monſieur Grinagain here, and I'll vvarrant you'll not knovv yourſelf vvhich is vvhich.

1778, [Frances Burney], “Letter XXI. Evelina in Continuation.”, in Evelina, or, A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, volume III, London: […] T[homas] Lowndes, […], →OCLC, page 252:

Beside him ancient Angus stood, / Doffed his furred gown, and sable hood; […]

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Sixth. The Battle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XI, page 333:

I pray thee to call my slaves to unarm me; and when thou thyself doffest those weapons of an ordinary lifeguard's-man, tell them they never shall above twice more enclose the limbs of one for whom fate has much more fitting garments in store.

1830 November – 1831 November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume II (Count Robert of Paris), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 279:

Thou turnedst my mourning to dancing: / Thou doffedst my sackcloth, / And girdedst me round with gladness.

1850, Frederic Fysh, “Psalm XXX. A Psalm (a Song at the Dedication of the House) of David.”, in A Lyrical Literal Version of the Psalms. […], volume I, London: Seeleys […], →OCLC, stanza III, verse 11, page 56:

But in the falling afternoon return'd / The huge Earl Doorm with plunder to the hall. / His lusty spearmen follow'd him with noise: / Each hurling down a heap of things that rang / Against the pavement, cast his lance aside, / And doff'd his helm: […]

1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 77:

[A]t night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn: […]

1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Adirondacs. A Journal. Dedicated to My Fellow-travellers in August, 1858.”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 47:

She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 7, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, page 59:

(chiefly clothing) To remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).

The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.

[H]is courtesy to show, / He doffed, to Marmion bending low, / His broidered cap and plume.

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 252:

Were there really seventy-three ways to doff one's hat? / There were! I'd rather suspected that

2010, Jim Burke, “Hail the Chap”, in I Say!, performed by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer [pseudonym; Jim Burke]:

To remove or tip (a hat or other headwear) in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect.

To remove (a bobbin or spindle which is full of spun yarn) from a spinning frame for replacement with an empty one.

vaihtaa

to remove (a bobbin or spindle which is full of yarn) from a spinning frame for replacement with an empty one

To remove (small pieces of cotton or other plant fibre, etc.) from a carding cylinder.

kuoria

to remove (small pieces of cotton or other plant fibre, etc.) from a carding cylinder


jigger

→ Catalan: gigre

From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

(textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.


loge

loge f (definite singular loga, indefinite plural loger, definite plural logene)

loga (definite singular)
loger (indefinite plural)
logene (definite plural)
lògu (alternative)
lugu (alternative)

(weaving) a warp (thread running lengthwise in woven fabric


moll

head

moll m or n (definite singular mollen or mollet, indefinite plural moller or moll, definite plural mollene or molla)

mollen (definite singular)
mollet (definite singular)
moller (indefinite plural)
moll (indefinite plural)
mollene (definite plural)
molla (definite plural)


motif

From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.

(dressmaking) A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon

Senses relating to someone or something small.

(clothing, historical) In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.


purl

en-verb

purl (third-person singular simple present purls, present participle purling, simple past and past participle purled)

purls (present singular third-person)
purling (participle present)
purled (participle past)
purled (past)

Unknown; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl (“twist, ripple, whirl, spin”), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetan pirlo, an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.

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Knit one, purl two.

Stockinette fabric is created by knitting the right-side rows and purling the wrong-side rows.

(knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.


rep

rep (third-person singular simple present reps, present participle repping, simple past and past participle repped)

reps (present singular third-person)
repping (participle present)
repped (participle past)
repped (past)

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

Rep neck dec EOR 4 times more, AND AT THE SAME TIME, rep armhole dec EOR 4 (4,5) times more

2011, Hannah Fettig, Closely Knit: Handmade Gifts For The Ones You Love, page 44:


rep

en-noun

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Underfoot is a rich brown marble from the shores of Lake Champlain. The wainscoting is of green rep and red Numidian marble.

1923, Theodore Dreiser, The Color of a Great City, New York: Boni & Liveright:

It was decorated in […] horsehair and red rep curtains[.]

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 60:

I toted a (rather fetching) $100 Gucci 1955 Horsebit rep through a vacation across Europe […]

2023 May 4, Amy X. Wang, Grant Cornett, “Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.


ret

head

ret (plural and definite singular attributive rette)

rette (attributive definite singular)
rette (attributive plural)

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, cognate with Swedish rätt, rät, English right, German recht, gerecht. The Germanic adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós, hence Latin rēctus (“straight”), Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός (orektós, “stretched out”).

cog

Strik skiftevis tre masker ret og to vrang.

Alternately, knit three stitches and purl two. (lit.: "knit three stitches knitwise and two purlwise")

(knitting, also used adverbially) plain, knitwise


sima

hu-adj

sima (comparative simább, superlative legsimább)

simább (comparative)
legsimább (superlative)
sima (nominative singular)
simák (nominative plural)
simát (accusative singular)
simákat (accusative plural)
simának (dative singular)
simáknak (dative plural)
simával (instrumental singular)
simákkal (instrumental plural)
simáért (causal-final singular)
simákért (causal-final plural)
simává (singular translative)
simákká (plural translative)
simáig (singular terminative)
simákig (plural terminative)
simaként (essive-formal singular)
simákként (essive-formal plural)
simában (inessive singular)
simákban (inessive plural)
simán (singular superessive)
simákon (plural superessive)
simánál (adessive singular)
simáknál (adessive plural)
simába (illative singular)
simákba (illative plural)
simára (singular sublative)
simákra (plural sublative)
simához (allative singular)
simákhoz (allative plural)
simából (elative singular)
simákból (elative plural)
simáról (delative singular)
simákról (delative plural)
simától (ablative singular)
simáktól (ablative plural)
simáé (singular)
simáké (plural)
simáéi (singular)
simákéi (plural)

Uncertain. Either derived from regional simik (“to slide”), or from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).

Egy sima, egy fordított, egy sima, egy fordított.

(knitting) knit (of a stitch, passing through the previous loop from below, creating a V-shape)


tog

Row 1 (Right side): Slip 1, K1, K2 tog, YO, K 10, (K2 tog, YO) twice, K3.

2012, Kay Meadors, Knitting for a Cure, page 34:


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿 /驾驶杆

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

The country children thereabouts wore their dresses to their shoe-tops, but this city child was dressed in what was then called the "Kate Greenaway" manner, and her red cashmere frock, gathered full from the yoke, came almost to the floor.

1913 June, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in O Pioneers!, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part I (The Wild Land), pages 11–12:

The dresses her mother made looked ugly, even obscene, for her breasts were well grown, and the yokes emphasized them, showing flattened bulges under the tight band of material; and the straight falling line of the skit was spoiled by her full hips.

1952, Doris Lessing, chapter 1, in Martha Quest, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1993, →ISBN, part 1, page 28:

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.


beam

From Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.
The original English meaning of beam ("tree") is preserved in some compound words such as quickbeam.
The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English bēamian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.

inh

(textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.


beam

en-verb

beam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)

beams (present singular third-person)
beaming (participle present)
beamed (participle past)
beamed (past)

→ German: beamen

→ Dutch: beamen

→ Japanese: ビーム

(transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.


cram

en-noun

cram (countable and uncountable, plural crams)

From Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian (“to cram; stuff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krammōn, from Proto-Germanic *krammōną, a secondary verb derived from *krimmaną (“to stuff”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to assemble; collect; gather”). Compare Old English crimman (“to cram; stuff; insert; press; bruise”), Icelandic kremja (“to squeeze; crush; bruise”).

cog

(weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.


drape

From Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), North Frisian dreep (“a blow”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.

der

(textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.


gather

en-verb

gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)

gathers (present singular third-person)
gathering (participle present)
gathered (participle past)
gathered (past)
gether (alternative obsolete regional)

From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).

der

A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.

(sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.

набирам

—sewing: to add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth

Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.

If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.

(knitting) To bring stitches closer together.

To bring parts of a whole closer.
To bring stitches closer together.

tihentää

—knitting: to bring stitches closer together


gauge

en-noun

gauge (countable and uncountable, plural gauges)

From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”). Doublet of gallows.

cog

(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.


gimp

en-verb

gimp (third-person singular simple present gimps, present participle gimping, simple past and past participle gimped)

gimps (present singular third-person)
gimping (participle present)
gimped (participle past)
gimped (past)

Attested since about 1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming.
The regional sense of "gumption" is attested since about 1905, and may have developed due to the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly the influence of the words gumption and gumph.

It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire.

1856, Campbell Morfit, A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles, page 435 with illustration:

...low strings later than the mid-seventeenth century are commonly gimped (wound with fine wire on a moderate core) to allow sufficient tension without excessive mass or stiffness.

1982, Robert Donington, Music and Its Instruments, page 69:

(sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.


ladder

nl-noun

ladder f (plural ladders, diminutive laddertje n)

ladders (plural)
laddertje (diminutive neuter)
leeder (alternative obsolete)
leer (alternative dated dialectal)

desctree

Afrikaans: leer
→ Sotho: lere
→ Xhosa: ileli

From Middle Dutch ladere, from Old Frisian hladder, hledder, hleder, hlērde, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaidriju, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō.

(clothing) a ladder, a run (length of unravelled fabric)


lest

lest m (definite singular lesten, indefinite plural lester, definite plural lestene)

lesten (definite singular)
lester (indefinite plural)
lestene (definite plural)
leist (alternative)

From Old Norse leistr, from Proto-Germanic *laistaz.


lest

lest m (definite singular lesten, indefinite plural lestar, definite plural lestane)

lesten (definite singular)
lestar (indefinite plural)
lestane (definite plural)
leist (alternative)

From Old Norse leistr m, from Proto-Germanic *laistaz m (“track, trace; footprint”), from Proto-Indo-European *lóystos, from the root *leys- (“to trace, track”). Akin to English last, Swedish läst, and German Leisten.


peak

→ German: Peak

→ Russian: пик (pik) (in час пик (čas pik))

From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”).
Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.

cog

(clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)


sett

A variant of set to distinguish various technical senses.

(weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.

(weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.


sheer

en-adj

sheer (comparative sheerer or more sheer, superlative sheerest or most sheer)

sheerer (comparative)
more sheer (comparative)
sheerest (superlative)
most sheer (superlative)

From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”).
Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), German Low German schier (“sheer, pure, unadulterated"; "completely, almost”)Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hir (“grace, beauty; goodwill”).

cog

Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.

“She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”

1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 17, in The Subtle Minotaur:

She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection.

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 53:


taper

(weaving) One who operates a tape machine.


formal

en-noun

formal (countable and uncountable, plural formals)

From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.

Well, I open up the door / And much to my surprise / The girls were wearin' formals / And the boys were wearin' ties

1965, Shadow Morton, “Sophisticated Boom Boom”, performed by The Shangri-Las:


camouflage

camouflage (countable and uncountable, plural camouflages)

/ˈkæ.məˌflɑːʒ/

Unadapted borrowing from French camouflage, from camoufler (“to veil, disguise”), alteration (due to camouflet (“smoke blown in one's face”)) of Italian camuffare (“to muffle the head”), from ca- (from Italian capo (“head”)) + muffare (“to muffle”), from Medieval Latin muffula, muffla (“muff”). This Medieval Latin, from which there is also English muffle, is either derived from a Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”)) + *fell (“hide, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”), or, an alternate etymology traces it to a Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) composed of *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”) + *fell (“skin, hide”) from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”).

der

(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.


길

두루마기 두루마기#Korean

(clothing) the gil, the large body section of the upper garment in traditional clothing such as the 저고리 (jeogori) or 두루마기 (durumagi)


aka

From Proto-Polynesian *qaka. Cognates include Tuvaluan aka and Samoan a'a.

(transitive, weaving) to weave (a skirt) by holding the weaving string on the foot


diritto

it-adj

diritto (feminine diritta, masculine plural diritti, feminine plural diritte)

diritta (feminine)
diritti (masculine plural)
diritte (feminine plural)
dritto (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *dērēctus or *dirictus, both assimilated forms from Latin dīrectus. Doublet of diretto.


causa

Possibly from Occitan cauça, from Vulgar Latin *calcea (through the intermadiates calza~cauza), ultimately from Latin calceus. Cognate with Italian calza (calzetta, calzone).

(dated, clothing) Any garment worn from the feet up, possibly reaching to the waist.


jeans

Originally a shortened form of jean fustian (from Middle English Gene (“Genoa; Genovese”) (from Latin Genua) + fustian (“strong cotton fabric”). The -s was added to jean under influence from the cognate Old French Jannes (modern French Gênes).

Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.

As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun “jeans,” blue or yellow—there were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two—yarn ones knitted at home,—some wore vests, but few wore coats.

1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 19:

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

(clothing) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.


bunch

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.
Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Kamkata-viri břẽć, břez (“berry tree”), Prasuni vuzra (“berry tree”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)).
Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

cog

(textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.


binding

From Middle English byndynge; equivalent to bind + -ing.

(sewing) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.

päättäminen

sewing: finishing on a seam or hem of a garment


attire

en-noun

attire (countable and uncountable, plural attires)

The verb is from Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).
The noun is from Middle English atir, from the verb.

He was wearing his formal attire.

(clothing) One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.


grade

en-verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

grades (present singular third-person)
grading (participle present)
graded (participle past)
graded (past)

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus.
Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”).

(sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.


dome

Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.

cal

οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας

tūtiti

a press stud or snap fastener used instead of buttons on clothing


stash

en-noun

stash (countable and uncountable, plural stashes)

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.

My stash is mostly unfinished objects on the needles. I have one bag of yarn that I bought to make a coat.

2021, Julie Cicora, Contemplative Knitting, page 131:

(countable, textiles) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.


stad

stad (indefinite nominative singular)
stads (genitive indefinite singular)
staden (definite nominative singular)
stan (definite nominative singular)
stadens (definite genitive singular)
stans (definite genitive singular)
städer (indefinite nominative plural)
städers (genitive indefinite plural)
städerna (definite nominative plural)
städernas (definite genitive plural)
stadh (alternative)
stedt (alternative)

→ Finnish: Stadi

From Old Swedish staþer, from Old Norse staðr, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. The sense “town, city” is a semantic loan from Middle Low German stat, from the same Proto-Germanic noun.

stadsdel

neighborhood; district, part of a city; suburb


basta

From Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).


basta

From Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”). Not through bastir (from the same Frankish origin), due to semantic incompatibility.


moiré

fr-adj

moiré (feminine moirée, masculine plural moirés, feminine plural moirées)

moirée (feminine)
moirés (masculine plural)
moirées (feminine plural)

(design, textiles) moiré, watered (effect)


sloper

(textiles) A custom-fitted basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be created.

The wages of slopers, so far as they have been found designated as such on the pay rolls, are given in Table 63.

1914, Nahum Isaac Stone, Royal Meeker, Wages and Regularity of Employment and Standardization of Piece Rates in the Dress and Waist Industry: New York City, page 145:

(textiles, obsolete) An assistant or apprentice cutter.


bomber

A few years ago, the leather bomber was a gold mine for retailers and a gravy train for vendors. Consumers were crazy for them.

1991 March 18, Jeff Black, “The Bomber Jacket Is Taking Lots of Flak”, in DNR, volume 21, number 53, →ISSN, page 13:

First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt.[…]

2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian:


shank

en-verb

shank (third-person singular simple present shanks, present participle shanking, simple past and past participle shanked)

shanks (present singular third-person)
shanking (participle present)
shanked (participle past)
shanked (past)

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Dutch schenkel, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).

2000, The Indian Textile Journal (volume 110, issues 7-12)

(transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).


Manchester

de-noun

Manchester m (strong, genitive Manchesters, no plural)

Manchesters (genitive)
Manchester (nominative singular)
Manchesters (genitive singular)
Manchester (dative singular)
Manchester (accusative singular)

The fabric was primarily produced in Manchester.

Ihren Begleiter, einen vierschrötigen Kerl mit vorstehendem Unterkiefer, in abgewetztem braunem Manchester, um den Hals ein Künstlertuch geplustert, behandelt der Matrose weniger wohlwollend.

1999, Rudolf Lorenzen, Cake Walk, oder, Eine katalanische Reise in die Anarchie, Rotbuch Verlag, page 245:


barra

head

barra m (genitive singular barra, nominative plural barraí)

barra (genitive singular)
barraí (nominative plural)
barra (indefinite nominative singular)
barraí (indefinite nominative plural)
a bharra (indefinite singular vocative)
a bharraí (indefinite plural vocative)
barra (genitive indefinite singular)
barraí (genitive indefinite plural)
barra (dative indefinite singular)
barraí (dative indefinite plural)
an barra (definite nominative singular)
na barraí (definite nominative plural)
an bharra (definite genitive singular)
na mbarraí (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbarra (dative definite singular)
don bharra (dative definite singular)
leis na barraí (dative definite plural)

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin.


woof

The noun is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric at right angles to the warp, weft, woof; also sometimes the warp; transverse filaments of a spider web”) [and other forms] (the forms beginning with w were influenced by warp and weft), from Old English ōwef, āwef, from ō-, ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + *wef (“web”) (only attested in the form gewef (“woof”); from wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid; to weave”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

inh

When the plage of leproſye is in a cloth: […] that cloth ſhalbe burnt, ether warpe or wolfe, whether it be wollen or lynen or any thynge that is made of ſkynne where the plage is, […]

1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Leuiticus xiij:[47 and 52], folio XXIII, recto:

[…] Solon vvas of this opinion, that the proper vvorke of every art and facultie, as vvell divine as humane, vvas rather the effect and thing by it vvrought, than that vvhereby it vvas effected; […] for ſo I ſuppoſe that a vveaver vvill ſay, that his vvorke is to make a vveb for a mantle, a coat or ſuch a robe, and not to ſpoole, vvinde quils, lay his vvarpe, ſhoot oufe, or raiſe and let fall the vveights and ſtones hanging to the loome: […]

1603, Plutarch, “The Banquet of the Seven Sages”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 337:

[…] Paſsions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied vnto the Inſtruments and Vſes vvhich Men ordinarily practiſe; But they are all but the Effects of ſome of theſe Cauſes follovving; […] The Fourteenth is the Placing, of the Tangible Parts, in Length, or Tranſuerſe; (as it is in the VVarpe, and the VVoofe of Textiles;) […]

1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching Other Passions of Matter, and Characters of Bodies.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 846, page 216:

The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.

liq

set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp — see also weft

[T]his is no lavv unto the vvoof of the neat Retiarie Spider, vvhich ſeems to vveave vvithout tranſverſion, and by the union of right lines to make out a continued ſurface, vvhich is beyond the common art of Textury, and may ſtill nettle Minerva the Godeſſe of that myſtery.

1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 110–111:

To ſpread the pall beneath the regal chair / Of ſofteſt vvoof, is bright Alcippe’s care.

1725, Homer, “Book IV”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 153, lines 163–164:

The purple ſtain on fleecy vvoofs he ſpread, / VVhich lur'd the eye, adorning many a nymph, / And drevv the pomp of trade to riſing Tyre.

1757, John Dyer, “Book II”, in The Fleece: A Poem. […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 77, lines 600–602:

[…] Ulyſſes then in haſte / Put on his veſt and mantle, and, the nymph / Her ſnovvy veſture of tranſparent vvoof, / Graceful, redundant; […]

1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book V.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 118, lines 274–277:

Drawn round her [Nature's] brows a lucid veil depends, / O'er her fine waist the purfled woof descends; / Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.

1803, Erasmus Darwin, “Canto I. Production of Life.”, in The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, […], by T[homas] Bensley, […], →OCLC, section II, page 12, lines 133–136:

Flames dart their glare o'er midnight's sable woof, […]

1811, Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, stanza XXIV, page 29:

That girl's thread of life has been the dark line in my woof—she has robbed me of fortune—she now thwarts me in my career—she humbles me in my vanity.

1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter V, in Alice or The Mysteries […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book V, page 147:

These causes of delay now vanished, the Parcæ closed the abrupt woof, and lifted the impending shears.

1846, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “Retrospect”, in Lucretia: Or The Children of Night. […], volume III, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, part II, page 134:

At either hand stood open the tall doors, / But partly draped by woofs of Phrygian looms; […]

1866, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, “The Wife of Miletus”, in The Lost Tales of Miletus, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 111:

(by extension) A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.

[F]irſt I muſt put off / Theſe my skie robes ſpun out of Iris vvooffe, / And take the vveeds and likeneſſe of a Svvaine, […]

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 4:

Iris had dipt the wooff; / His ſtarrie Helme unbuckl'd ſhew'd him prime / In Manhood where Youth ended; […]

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 244–246:

Or am I mad, my father, and did I weave these visions from the woof of my madness? I do not know, but it is true that I seemed to see them.

1892, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Counsel of Baleka”, in Nada the Lily (Longmans’ Colonial Library), London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 87:

(by extension, loosely, chiefly poetic) The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.

Mean time Alcyone (his Fate unknovvn) / Computes hovv many Nights he had been gone, / […] / Againſt the promis'd Time provides vvith care, / And haſtens in the VVoof the Robes he vvas to vvear: / And for her Self employs another Loom, / Nevv-dreſs'd to meet her Lord returning home, / Flatt'ring her Heart vvith Joys that never vvere to come: […]

1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 370:

(obsolete, rare) Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”).


woof

en-verb

woof (third-person singular simple present woofs, present participle woofing, simple past and past participle woofed)

woofs (present singular third-person)
woofing (participle present)
woofed (participle past)
woofed (past)

And warp well the long threads, / The bright threads, the strong threads; / Woof well the cross threads, / To make the colours shine.

1894, Alice C[laire] MacDonell, “The Weaving of the Tartan”, in Elizabeth A[melia] Sharp, editor, Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry […], Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes and Colleagues […], published 1896, →OCLC, page 252:

After de yarn was spin, it was reeled off de spools into hanks and then took to de warper. Then she woofed it, warped it, and loomed it into cloth. Her make for yards in a day.

1936–1938, W. W. Dixon, quoting Dan Smith, “Dan Smith: Ex-slave 75 Years [Project #1655]”, in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves […], volume XIV (South Carolina Narratives), part 4, Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, published 1941, →OCLC, page 97:

(weaving) To place (yarns) crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp in a loom.

asettaa kude

to place (yarns) crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp in a loom


st

insert right-hand needle bet 2 sts just knitted

1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 63:

Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.

2009, Sally Muir, Joanna Osborne, Diana Miller, Pet Projects: The Animal Knits Bible, page 71:

Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]

2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55:

(knitting, crochet) Abbreviation of stitch.


vibrator

[ˈvaɪ̯bɹeɪ̯ɾɚ]

From New Latin vibrātor, from Latin vibrō (“to vibrate”). By surface analysis, vibrate + -or.

A device that vibrates or causes vibration.

(weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.


borderi

eo-head

borderi (present borderas, past borderis, future borderos, conditional borderus, volitive borderu)

borderas (present)
borderis (past)
borderos (future)
borderus (conditional)
borderu (volitive)
borderas (present)
borderis (past)
borderos (future)
borderanta (active participle present singular)
borderantaj (active participle plural present)
borderinta (active participle past singular)
borderintaj (active participle past plural)
borderonta (active future participle singular)
borderontaj (active future participle plural)
borderantan (accusative active participle present singular)
borderantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
borderintan (accusative active participle past singular)
borderintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
borderontan (accusative active future participle singular)
borderontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
borderata (participle passive present singular)
borderataj (participle passive plural present)
borderita (participle passive past singular)
borderitaj (participle passive past plural)
borderota (future participle passive singular)
borderotaj (future participle passive plural)
borderatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
borderatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
borderitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
borderitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
borderotan (accusative future participle passive singular)
borderotajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
borderanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
borderantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
borderinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
borderintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
borderonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
borderontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
borderanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
borderantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
borderinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
borderintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
borderonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
borderontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
borderato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
borderatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
borderito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
borderitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
borderoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
borderotoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
borderaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
borderatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
borderiton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
borderitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
borderoton (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
borderotojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
borderante (active adverbial participle present)
borderinte (active adverbial participle past)
borderonte (active adverbial future participle)
borderate (adverbial participle passive present)
borderite (adverbial participle passive past)
borderote (adverbial future participle passive)
borderi (infinitive plural present)
borderu (imperative past plural)
borderus (conditional future plural)

(transitive, sewing) to hem (put a hem on a garment)


butono

From Esperanto butono, English button, French bouton, Italian bottone, Spanish botón.


WS

en-noun

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

with yarn in front, slip stitch purlwise on WS

2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 41:


forma

pl-noun

forma f (diminutive foremka, related adjective foremny)

foremka (diminutive)
foremny (adjective)
forma (nominative singular)
formy (nominative plural)
formy (genitive singular)
form (genitive plural)
formie (dative singular)
formom (dative plural)
formę (accusative singular)
formy (accusative plural)
formą (instrumental singular)
formami (instrumental plural)
formie (locative singular)
formach (locative plural)
formo (singular vocative)
formy (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fòrma

(textiles) pattern (paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling)


piping

en-noun

piping (countable and uncountable, plural pipings)

(sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.


French cut

(clothing) Designed to reveal the thigh, usually of women's underpants.


skip

en-verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

skips (present singular third-person)
skipping (participle present)
skipped (participle past)
skipped (past)

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

(knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

пропускам

knitting, crocheting: pass by a stitch as if it were not there


becket

Compare Dutch bek (“beak”) beak, and English beak.

(sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.


ottoman

en-noun

ottoman (countable and uncountable, plural ottomans)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-ottoman.wav

From Ottoman in the early 19th century; so named because reclining on a couch was associated with Middle Eastern customs.

(textiles) A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.


DJ

(clothing) Abbreviation of dinner jacket.


tuck

tuck (countable and uncountable, plural tucks)

From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.

cog

(sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.

1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True:

(textiles) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.

毛球

ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing


pill

en-verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

pills (present singular third-person)
pilling (participle present)
pilled (participle past)
pilled (past)

During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.

1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted Sweater Style: Inspirations in Color:

(intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.


liath

From Old Irish líath, from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitos, from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“grey”).


batting

en-noun

batting (countable and uncountable, plural battings)

From bat + -ing, batt + -ing (“material, collection”).

(sewing) Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.


twitter

Origin unknown; possibly related to twine, twist, and twirl.

(Northern England, Scotland, weaving, archaic) A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.


ligne

Synonym of line (“ill-defined unit of length”).

(textiles) A unit of length used for measuring the diameter of buttons.


monter

monter (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
montant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
monté (participle past)
monte (first-person indicative present singular)
montes (indicative present second-person singular)
monte (indicative present singular third-person)
montons (first-person indicative plural present)
montez (indicative plural present second-person)
montent (indicative plural present third-person)
montais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
montais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
montait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
montions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
montiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
montaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
montai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
montas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
monta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
montâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
montâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
montèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
monterai (first-person future indicative singular)
monteras (future indicative second-person singular)
montera (future indicative singular third-person)
monterons (first-person future indicative plural)
monterez (future indicative plural second-person)
monteront (future indicative plural third-person)
monterais (conditional first-person singular)
monterais (conditional second-person singular)
monterait (conditional singular third-person)
monterions (conditional first-person plural)
monteriez (conditional plural second-person)
monteraient (conditional plural third-person)
present indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
imperfect indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
past historic of avoir (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of avoir (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
monte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
montes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
monte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
montions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
montiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
montent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
montasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
montasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
montât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
montassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
montassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
montassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
present subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
imperfect subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
monte (imperative second-person singular)
montons (first-person imperative plural)
montez (imperative plural second-person)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
simple imperative of avoir (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
être + past participle (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)

→ German: montieren

→ Polish: montaż

→ Polish: montować

→ Swedish: montera

Inherited from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).


zurcir

gl-verb

zurcir (first-person singular present zurzo, first-person singular preterite zurcín, past participle zurcido)

zurzo (first-person present singular)
zurcín (first-person preterite singular)
zurcido (participle past)
zurcir (impersonal infinitive)
zurcir (first-person infinitive singular)
zurcires (infinitive second-person singular)
zurcir (infinitive personal singular)
zurcirmos (first-person infinitive plural)
zurcirdes (infinitive plural second-person)
zurciren (infinitive personal plural)
zurcindo (gerund)
zurcido (masculine participle past singular)
zurcido (first-person masculine participle past singular)
zurcido (masculine participle past second-person singular)
zurcidos (masculine participle past plural)
zurcidos (first-person masculine participle past plural second-person)
zurcida (feminine participle past singular)
zurcida (feminine first-person participle past singular)
zurcida (feminine participle past second-person singular)
zurcidas (feminine participle past plural)
zurcidas (feminine first-person participle past plural second-person)
zurzo (first-person indicative present singular)
zurces (indicative present second-person singular)
zurce (indicative present singular)
zurcimos (first-person indicative plural present)
zurcides (indicative plural present second-person)
zurcen (indicative plural present)
zurcía (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
zurcías (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
zurcía (imperfect indicative singular)
zurciamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
zurciades (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
zurcían (imperfect indicative plural)
zurcín (first-person indicative preterite singular)
zurciches (indicative preterite second-person singular)
zurciu (indicative preterite singular)
zurcimos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
zurcistes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
zurciron (indicative plural preterite)
zurcira (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
zurciras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
zurcira (indicative pluperfect singular)
zurciramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
zurcirades (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
zurciran (indicative pluperfect plural)
zurcirei (first-person future indicative singular)
zurcirás (future indicative second-person singular)
zurcirá (future indicative singular)
zurciremos (first-person future indicative plural)
zurciredes (future indicative plural second-person)
zurcirán (future indicative plural)
zurciría (conditional first-person singular)
zurcirías (conditional second-person singular)
zurciría (conditional singular)
zurciriamos (conditional first-person plural)
zurciriades (conditional plural second-person)
zurcirían (conditional plural)
zurza (first-person present singular subjunctive)
zurzas (present second-person singular subjunctive)
zurza (present singular subjunctive)
zurzamos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
zurzades (plural present second-person subjunctive)
zurzan (plural present subjunctive)
zurcise (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
zurcises (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
zurcise (imperfect singular subjunctive)
zurcísemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
zurcísedes (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
zurcisen (imperfect plural subjunctive)
zurcir (first-person future singular subjunctive)
zurcires (future second-person singular subjunctive)
zurcir (future singular subjunctive)
zurcirmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
zurcirdes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
zurciren (future plural subjunctive)
zurce (imperative second-person singular)
zurza (imperative singular)
zurzamos (first-person imperative plural)
zurcide (imperative plural second-person)
zurzan (imperative plural)
non zurzas (imperative negative second-person singular)
non zurza (imperative negative singular)
non zurzamos (first-person imperative negative plural)
non zurzades (imperative negative plural second-person)
non zurzan (imperative negative plural)
surcir (alternative)

From Latin sarciō. Cognate with Portuguese cerzir and Spanish zurcir.

o rebes
 bin fazer a un cordobes
 y a outro sibillano
 abofe sinon me engano
 ca lle'surziron o ynbes
 pola treta
 que figeron y a gineta
 sobre duas burras pardas
 o sacaron sobre albardas
 e diante ua tronpeta

1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

The contrary thing I saw done to one Cordobese and one Sevillian kids; certainly, If I'm not mistaken, they darned them in the underside because of the trickery they did: they mounted them on two brown donkeys on packsaddles and paraded them, and ahead a trumpet

(transitive, sewing) to darn; to mend (repair by stitching with thread or yarn)