Definitions for handloom

handloom hand·loom

Spelling: [hand-loom]
IPA: /ˈhændˌlum/

Handloom is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in handloom (adhlmnoo).

Definitions for handloom

noun

  1. a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.

Origin of handloom

First recorded in 1825-35; hand + loom1

Examples for handloom

The handloom weavers in two of the suburbs of Philadelphia started cooperative associations at the same time.

He had met Warner the handloom weaver in his way, and enlisted his powerful influence with the people on his side.

The ruined cottages had been evacuated hurriedly, but in each cottage the handloom had been smashed, and not by shells.

Receiving a common school education, he was apprenticed to a handloom weaver.

The old Cobbler, like the ancient spinster and handloom weaver, is retiring into the shade of the boot and shoe factory.

A man invents a machine which does the work of ten handloom weavers.

The handloom, the bobbin, the reel, and the spinning-wheel keep right on as before.

Who should know so well as I that it is but a handloom compared to the great guns that reverberate through the age to come?

Word Value for handloom
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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