handloom

[ hand-loom ]

noun

1. a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.

Word History and Origins

Origin of handloom¹

First recorded in 1825–35; hand + loom ¹

Example Sentences

Handloom-weaving is almost extinct, but several cotton mills have been opened.

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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?

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The handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time.

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A white-livered Handloom as I dare say, or a son of a gun of a factory slave.

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The handloom, the bobbin, the reel, and the spinning-wheel keep right on as before.

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