Definitions for power-loom

power-loom pow·er-loom

Spelling: [pou-er-loom]
IPA: /ˈpaʊ ərˌlum/

Power-Loom is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in power-loom (-elmoooprw).

Definitions for power-loom

noun

  1. a loom operated by mechanical or electrical power.

Origin of power-loom

First recorded in 1800-10

Examples for power-loom

Then in order to keep up with the spinning machine the power-loom was invented.

It was the same with the introduction of the spinning machinery,—the same with the power-loom.

This became a common practice when the hand-loom workers were groaning under the pressure of competition from the power-loom.

At first the water-wheel was used to drive the power-loom but later the steam-engine was made to do this work.

The principal industry was weaving, but the substitution of the power-loom for the hand-loom nearly put an end to it.

We have put up a power-loom at our upper works, and are about prepared to produce thereby sufficient to clothe us.

When capitalism began, when it came with its steam engine and its power-loom, what was the first thing it did?

The hand-loom in weaving was superseded by the power-loom early in the nineteenth century.

The worsted industry of East Anglia is perishing, defeated by the resources of Yorkshire, of which the power-loom is only one.

The place of the hero in the poem would of course be supplied by a power-loom.

Word Value for power-loom
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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