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drop box
noun
, Textiles.
- a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of drop box1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
In 1760 Robert Kay invented the drop box, by which different shuttles carrying different colors of thread were employed.
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The front end of the feed rod is supported in a drop box q, and is splined to allow the worm k to travel upon it.
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It is true that both the fly-shuttle and drop-box had been invented by that time, but the loom was still worked by human power.
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