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Weft
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- 1 The horizontal threads that are interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric.
"It is all the more remarkable therefore that in one respect — weft colours — some of the pirnless looms are more versatile than conventional machines. Figure 6 shows the colour mechanism of a conventional loom designed to weave six colours of weft (there is never any problem about colour patterning in the warp)."
- 2 Alternative spelling of waif. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
"The gentle Lady, loose at randon left, / The greene-wood long did walke, and wander wide / At wilde aduenture, like a forlorne weft,"
- 3 the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving wordnet
- 4 The yarn used for the weft; the fill.
- 5 A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.
"Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles."
- 1 Acronym of wing(s), engine(s), fuselage(s), tail(s), a mnemonic for airplane identification, of most the most identifiable parts of the aeroplane, that can be used to distinguish one aircraft from another. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Etymology
From Middle English wefte, from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną. Equivalent to weave + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
Compare waif.
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