Crossword clues for wove
wove
- Made tapestries
- Created with a loom
- Crafted, as a tale
- Zigged and zagged with a needle
- Zig-zagged to and fro
- Worked in
- Used warp and weft
- Used looms
- Twilled, e.g
- Told, as an elaborate tale
- Swerved from lane to lane when driving
- Masterminded, as a complex plan
- Made, as Navajo baskets
- Made, as fabric on a loom
- Made, as a tapestry
- Made, as a basket
- Made thread into cloth
- Made on loom
- Made broadcloth
- Made a tapestry, maybe
- Made a rug, perhaps
- Made a rug, e.g
- Made a rug or tapestry by hand, say
- Made a rug by hand, say
- Made a rug
- Emulated Marner
- Emulated a busy spider
- Did work on a loom
- Did some tapestry work
- Did rugmaking
- Did like Penelope
- Created on a loom
- Created a tapestry
- Crafted, as a tapestry
- Crafted, as a Navajo rug
- Crafted, as a multi-plot storyline
- Made by hand, as a rug
- Worked like Arachne
- Didn't go straight
- Made a tapestry, e.g
- Crisscrossed
- Knitted
- Used a loom
- Braided
- Emulated Arachne
- Had work looming?
- Twilled, e.g.
- Zigzagged
- Made a rug, e.g.
- Spun, as a tale
- Told, as a yarn
- Roved unpredictably
- Emulated Penelope
- Interlaced
- Fabricated
- Used a sley
- Intermeshed
- Spun, as a web
- Did handwork
- Operated a loom
- Made on a loom
- Worked on a loom
- Made baskets, say
- Worked like Rumpelstiltskin
- Made cloth
- Made a basket, say
- Crafted on a loom
- Made rugs, maybe
- Labored at a loom
- Drove recklessly
- Created a basket
- Concocted, as a yarn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weave \Weave\ (w[=e]v), v. t. [imp. Wove (w[=o]v); p. p. Woven (w[=o]v"'n), Wove; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaving. The regular imp. & p. p. Weaved (w[=e]vd), is rarely used.] [OE. weven, AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw. v["a]fva, Dan. v[ae]ve, Gr. "yfai`nein, v., "y`fos web, Skr. [=u]r[.n]av[=a]bhi spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. Waper, Waffle, Web, Weevil, Weft, Woof.]
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To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately.
This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
--Shak.That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons.
--Milton.And for these words, thus woven into song.
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To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, to weave the plot of a story.
When she weaved the sleided silk.
--Shak.Her starry wreaths the virgin jasmin weaves.
--Ld. Lytton.
Wove \Wove\, p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple pastweave)
WordNet
v. interlace by or as it by weaving [syn: interweave] [ant: unweave]
create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: tissue]
sway to and fro [syn: waver]
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: wind, thread, meander, wander]
See weave
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "wove".
The music wove a spell around her as magic as anything Akasha had to offer.
He saw the way Azar wove her fingers together tightly and wondered what agitated her so about his story.
Spandrel in the tale she had already told Buckthorn and Silverwood, a tale that grew around him in the telling and wove their separate pasts into an interdependent present.
She could see nothing but Cashel and the sparkling blue globe that the quarterstaff wove around them.
Even Cavilon was not totally scorned as they occasionally wove past one another.
The fae gathered around him, softly, and wove a picture that his mind could interpret.
They had implements also, and weapons of war beautifully fashioned from flint, ivory, and the horns of deer, and they wove cloth such as that of her garments from the wool of tame beasts and dyed it with the juices of herbs, different from those that bore the seeds which they ate.
Abreast of his trailer, he left the ditch and wove his way speedily toward home through the dense underbrush, in which the only person he ever encountered was Captain Flume, who, drawn and ghostly, frightened him half to death one twilight by materializing without warning out of a patch of dewberry bushes to complain that Chief White Halfoat had threatened to slit his throat open from ear to ear.
In the beginning, Ayla just followed Iza around and watched while they skinned animals, cured hides, stretched thongs cut in one spiral piece from a single hide, wove baskets, mats, or nets, gouged bowls out of logs, gathered wild foods, prepared meals, preserved meat and plant food for winter, and responded to the wishes of any man who called upon them to perform a service.
They jus' wove them cords criss-cross, from one side to the other and from head to foot.
And the colors wove into a tapestry that blurred, steadied, and crystallized into a vision so complete in every detail that Kirin shrank back a step, as if he stood before a yawning door through which a mis-step might hurl him to spinning worlds below.
On the sequestered slopes of the low mountain valleys green mosses once more carpeted the earth, buttercups and dandelions peeped pale golden eyes from the ground, in the teeming crevices of the high promontories delicate green and crimson lichens wove a marvellous lacery, and wherever the sun poured its encouraging springtime light beauteous small star- and bell-shaped flowers burst into an effulgence of pale rose and glistening white bloom.
My mother lived with God: she baked lebkuchen for Him at Christmas and wove pine branches into Advent rings.
For the stream of mercaptan vapor was still flowing past the pitcher and all three balls wove a daisy chain past the plate!
But the women wore naprons made of woven grass, which looked softer than the beaten reeds that the Derku wove.