loom是什么意思

双语用例

• 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.