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Definition of Handloom
1. Noun. A loom powered by hand.
Definition of Handloom
1. a manually operated loom [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handloom
Literary usage of Handloom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of Indian Economics by Radhakamal Mukerjee (1916)
"CHAPTER XI handloom WEAVING handloom weaving is the most important ... Two-thirds
of the skilled artisan population of the country are handloom weavers. ..."
2. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"(g) handloom WEAVERS-A DECAYING HANDICRAFT (1) Complaints of the Weavers.
Young America, Jan. 3, 1846; quoted from the True Sun. ..."
3. Oor Ain Folk: Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot by James Inglis (1894)
"Our village ' factories' were long, low, thatched- roofed tenements, with the
natural clay for the floor. They were occupied by handloom weavers, ..."
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