1 gen 1642 anni - loom

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This was the weaver’s apparatus for weaving cloth, commonly referred to in the past as a pair of looms. 1588 <i>Item one paire of lowmbes one paire of heldes and one slaye vijs, </i> Dalton (WBW19); 1624 <i>reserved to the said Richard Swallow the roome or liberty for the standing ... of one paire of narowe loomes within the same worke chamber </i>, Honley (G-A). From the Old English period it was more generally an implement or tool of any kind (OED) and it retained that meaning: 1620 <i>this Courte doth request Sir Coniers Darcie ... to provide ... loomes and yrons for imployinge and ruling ... those who shalbe admitted </i>, Helmsley (NRQS2/235n); 1642 <i>An outligger carryeth but onely one loome to the fielde and that is a rake </i>, Elmswell (DW51). It had this sense in ‘heirloom’.

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