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noun

Loom n. (Zool.) See Loon, the bird.

Loom n.

A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. "Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff."

(Naut.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.

Loom n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

verb

Loom v. i. (past & past part. loomed; pres. part. looming)

To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high. "Awful she looms, the terror of the main."

To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. "On no occasion does he (Paul) loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context."

To become imminent; to impend.

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Etymology of 'Loom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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