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PREFERRED TERM
Leash  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Old French "lesse" "laisse" and the Latin "laxa". From the Middle English "lece" "leesse" "lees" "le" "leace" "lease" among others. It refers to the heddle of a drawloom. It is suspended from the necking cord below the comber board. It consists of two loops of thread wire
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; 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
Maille

French

Maglia

Italian

Malla

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/427
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