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PREFERRED TERM
Pulley box  
DEFINITION
  • n. In a drawloom, a box frame suspended over the loom containing the pulleys used to adjust the vertical looped strings. Over those pulleys, the cords run, permitting their extension to the side of the loom.
BROADER CONCEPT
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
Cassin

French

Cassino

Italian

Cántara

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/281
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