rare. [f. LOOM sb.1]
1. trans. To weave (a fabric).
1548. Hooper, Decl. Ten Command., x. 161. He … is as long in the morning to set his berd in an order, as a godlie crawftis man would be in loming of a peace of karsey.
1887. Moloney, Forestry W. Afr., 145. The cloth loomed from the cotton thread of the country.
2. Weaving. To loom the web: to ‘mount’ the warp on the loom. Also absol.
1827. Taylor, Poems, 58 (E. D. D.). Thou’s begun to loom thy wab, I’se thinking yer a wabster bred.
1851. L. D. B. Gordon, in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal., p. vii **/2. The ‘lease’ now being taken, and the cross bands or threads being introduced for the purpose of ‘looming,’ or drawing in of the weaver’s beam.
1883. A. Brown, Power-Loom (ed. 4), 86. The process of looming the web.
Hence Loomed ppl. a., woven.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, I. 277. He … with loom’d Wool the native Robe supplies.
