power loom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of power loom
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Just like the Luddites did to the power looms.
From Los Angeles Times
Like the power loom, the mechanized assembly line and the ATM, generative AI offers the promise of performing certain types of work more cheaply and efficiently than humans can accomplish.
From Washington Post
The two nations, both so practical in so many ways — whether power looms or medical science and high finance — are nonetheless suckers for princes and princesses and happily ever after.
From Washington Post
The government has proposed a series of increasingly tough measures to conserve energy as shortages of gas and power loom that could lead to rationing in a worst-case scenario.
From Reuters
Instead of blanketing the place with the percussive din that only a room full of power looms could produce, most of the machines sit silent and still.
From New York Times
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