handloom
[ hand-loom ]
noun
a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
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How to use handloom in a sentence
handloom-weaving is almost extinct, but several cotton mills have been opened.
Who should know so well as I that it is but a handloom compared to the great guns that reverberate through the age to come?
Margaret Ogilvy | J. M. BarrieThe handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanA white-livered handloom as I dare say, or a son of a gun of a factory slave.
Sybil | Benjamin DisraeliThe handloom, the bobbin, the reel, and the spinning-wheel keep right on as before.
Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series | August Strindberg
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