0 to appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object:
1 If an unwanted or unpleasant event looms, it seems likely to happen soon and causes worry:
2 a piece of equipment for weaving (= making thread into cloth)
3 to appear, esp. when seeming large and threatening:
4 a piece of equipment on which thread is woven into cloth
5 if an unpleasant event looms, it will probably happen and makes people worry:
6 if something looms large, it becomes very important and could cause serious problems:
Textile production was the dominant manufacturing sector, whether measured by employment at spindles and wheels and at looms, or by value of output.
In the second quarter of the nineteenth century perhaps 200,000 weavers left their looms rather than work for so little.
In the 1930s the cloth manufacturers made some attempts to increase the number of power looms per weaver above the standard four.
The appraisers did not invariably specify what type of looms were present in cases where there were two or more.
Most 'poor' weavers owned their own looms, but the few who did not were poor.
From the prices noted for the looms, it appears that the great majority of the forty-two cases involved two broadlooms.
The master weaver with two or more looms was both an independent artisan and an employer of labour.
At the contest, both weavers set up their looms.
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