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To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.

loves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.

-- Gold knobs or knoppes (Bot.), buttercups. -- Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread. -- Gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal. -- Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil. -- Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein. -- Gold…

An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods. Knight.

Of a coarse texture; -- applied to silk with a heavy thread running crosswise.

avy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).

A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. [Obs.] The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.

A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

rt of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle. To die in harness, to die with armor on; hence, colloquially, to die while actively engaged in work or duty.

A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.

A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight.

ts are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane.

To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

A measure of two hanks of linen thread. [Scot.] [Written also hasp.] Knight.