handloom

[ hand-loom ]

/ ˈhændˌlum /

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noun

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

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Origin of handloom

First recorded in 1825–35; hand + loom¹

Words nearby handloom

Handley Page, H and L hinge, handling, handload, hand log, handloom, handloomed, handmade, handmaid, handmaiden, hand-me-down

How to use handloom in a sentence

Handloom-weaving is almost extinct, but several cotton mills have been opened.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
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. Barrie
The 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 Perlman
A white-livered Handloom as I dare say, or a son of a gun of a factory slave.
Sybil|Benjamin Disraeli

The handloom, the bobbin, the reel, and the spinning-wheel keep right on as before.
Plays by August Strindberg, Fourth Series|August Strindberg