PREFERRED TERM
Shaft
DEFINITION
- n. A term inherited from Germanic. From the Old English "sceft" "sceaft" and the Middle English "scaft" "saft" among others. It refers to a group of heddles fixed side by side to be moved together at the same time. That is, each of a pair of long laths between which the heddles are stretched.
BROADER CONCEPT
- http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300247544 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Lisse
French
Liccio
Italian
Lizo
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/324
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