weft
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of weft
before 900; Middle English, Old English; akin to weave
Example Sentences
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In this work, however, the researchers demonstrated that weft knitting, the same industrial method commonly used to produce hats and gloves, can create complex curved structures using yarn alone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
“These women’s stories emerged from history. Using the metaphor of warp and weft, these women are living in history. They are weaving their lives through history. It’s influencing them. They are influencing it.”
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
Flood stories live in the warp and weft of legends and religions and nations — Gilgamesh, Noah, the Greeks and Aztecs, the Norse and Native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
By dating the Tatsipataa cloth remains, Hayeur Smith was able to correlate the ratio of weft to warp threads in each sample with published records of climate data.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022
Was she careless when she replaced the shuttle in the right-hand box or had there been a knot in the weft thread?
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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