backstrap loom

[ bak-strap ]

/ ˈbækˌstræp /

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noun

a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.

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Origin of backstrap loom

back¹ + strap

Words nearby backstrap loom

backstay, backstitch, backstop, backstory, back straight, backstrap loom, back street, backstretch, backstroke, backstroker, backswept

How to use backstrap loom in a sentence

Behind their silk hats loom shadows of their immigrant forbears.
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In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus.
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Over these environmental problems loom arguably greater social ones.
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Two hours east of Dallas, sun-drenched granite cliffs loom high above the cloudy waters of Possum Kingdom Lake.
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Jagged walls of rock, a palette of blacks and greys, loom over us.
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It was in full sight from the door of the little shanty in which Aunt Ri's carpet-loom stood.
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From above, through the ceiling, came the vibration of some machine at work, and the machine might have been the loom of time.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The labour of the spade and of the loom, and the petty gains of trade, he contemptuously abandoned to men of a lower caste.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
No well-wisher of India, no patriot dare look upon the impending destruction of the hand-loom weaver with equanimity.
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I will lie down and round me wrap The cool, black curtains of the gloom That night hath woven in her loom.
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