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Loom

noun

A textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile.

verb

(past & past part. loomed; pres. part. looming)

Come into view indistinctly, often threateningly.

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position. Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower. "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"

Hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing. Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover.

Weave on a loom.

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"Loom" Quotes from Famous Books

... disaster to the Martinez and placed me in my present situation. To the north, and not far away, a group of naked rocks thrust above the sea, on one of which I could distinguish a lighthouse. In the south-west, and almost in our course, I saw the pyramidal loom of some vessel's sails. ...

— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London

... after all, only a part of the beautiful tapestry which the patient Fingers of God are weaving—a dark and sombre warp, giving value to the gold and silver and jewelled threads of the weft which shall cross it. When the ultimate fabric is woven, and the tissue released from the loom, there will surely be no meaningless thread, sable or silver, in ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... attempt to give Hilda a little outfit for her wedding, just enough to hide the desperate poverty in which they had lived. Many a long winter's evening had the two ladies spun the fine flax by the smouldering fire; many a long day had Hilda and Berbel spent at the primitive loom in the sunny room of the south tower; through many a summer's noon had the long breadths of fine linen lain bleaching on the clean grey stone of the ramparts, watered by the faithful servant's careful hand. Endless had been the thought expended before cutting ...

— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford

... that his brain was affected, that he was paralysed, that he was deaf and blind, that he was dying of slow decline. Somehow the town felt that Mary Coombe, living or dead, did not loom large enough as a cause ...

— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... fascinating material to work with; all kinds of pretty things can be done with them, either sewing them upon a ground, knitting or crocheting, or making use of a small bead loom. A good deal of the ready-made bought bead work, that only requires a monotonous ground to be filled in around an already worked pattern of sorts, is not at all suggestive of its possibilities. Beads of both paste and glass can be obtained ...

— Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving • Grace Christie

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