Definitions
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- n. A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom.
- n. A part of power loom that performs the same office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A boy who helps a weaver in drawing the heddles to form the pattern of the cloth he is weaving; hence, a mechanical device employed for this purpose.
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Examples
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Thus the drawboy and the reader of designs were both at once superseded.
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