Definitions for looms

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looms loom

Spelling: [loom]

IPA: /lum/

Looms is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in looms (lmoos).

Definitions for looms

noun

1. a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
2. the art or the process of weaving.
3. the part of an oar between the blade and the handle.
4. a looming appearance, as of something seen indistinctly at a distance or through a fog:
5. loon1 .
6. a guillemot or murre.

verb (used with object)

1. to weave (something) on a loom.

verb (used without object)

1. to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct and enlarged form:
2. to rise before the vision with an appearance of great or portentous size:
3. to assume form as an impending event:

Origin of looms

before 900; Middle English lome, Old English gelōma tool, implement. See heirloom

Examples for looms

These two looms were very old and had been several generations in the family.

Thereafter the looms and weavers were pushed hard and had to turn to invention.

I am a weaver, sir: for my rent they seized my two looms; then I had nothing to do.

The question then looms for Kwan: Will she ever run for office herself?

Lysa Arryn, the largely forgotten widow of the Hand of the King, Jon Arryn, looms large here.

Age also looms as a wildcard, with a generational divide further shaping the contours of the contest.

Minnesotans like it that way: The memory of Jesse Venture looms large in many memories.

I will have it framed and handed down to my heirs, of which there are more than there will ever be looms.

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

There were no looms, mills, or shops on the plantation at Marster Moore's.