Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweeling
Literary usage of Tweeling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of by Clinton G. Gilroy (1844)
"however, that in all mountings which have an odd number of tweeling leaves, double
the number of treadles are requisite, in order to make the plain sheds ..."
2. The Art of Weaving: By Hand and by Power, with an Introductory Account of by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845)
"Where the pattern will permit, the greater portion of the tweeling leaves ...
Hence it will appear, that a stripe with an odd number of tweeling leaves will ..."
3. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1860)
"The generic difference of tweeling, when compared with common cloth, consists in
the intersections, although uniform and equidistant, being at determinate ..."
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