Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device employed in some looms to lay in, piece by piece, a. filling of slats, whalebone palm-leaf, or other stiffening material.
- noun An early arrangement for stopping a loom in case of the failure of the weft-thread.
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If the weaver fails to do so and the pirn empties, the absence of weft is usually detected by a weft-fork detector system.
Chapter 6 1983
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