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n. (power loom English)
Usage examples of "power looms".
Admittedly, the noise of the machines, particularly in the huge high-ceilinged room that contained the power looms, made it difficult to hear even a shouted explanation.
They've got cheap cloth, made with those power looms, and pretty soon they own the dry-goods business.
The productivity of a person working with the power looms, for example, is much higher than a woman weaving in her home.
And if you don't have any carding machinery or power looms, if you don't have any electric motors to run them, or any dynamos to generate the electricity, or any turbines to turn the dynamos, or any coal to raise steam, or any blast furnaces to make steel -- why then, obviously, you must depend for your fine cloth on the cemeteries of those who once enjoyed these advan.
Weavers at power looms used their own hair, the long fur of mutated rats, wisps of desert cotton, and even skin strips from wild creatures to make their durable fabric.
It was the beating throb of the engine in a steamboat, and hissing and spitting of a locomotive, the whine of spinning wheels, the clatter and clump of power looms.
We might be able to scare up some blankets, but we don't be havin' the power looms that the UFS does.
Mapes passed through a fabric-covered doorway into a room where women worked power looms, weaving long strands of hair and desert cotton into fabrics.