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Abb. World English Historical Dictionary

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Abb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2022. Abb Forms: 1 áwebb, óweb, áb; 8–9 abb. [f. A- pref. 1 + WEB; cf. OE. awefan = OHG. arweban, mod. G. erweben to weave, f. a up + wefan to weave. (Ettmüller suggests for an-web, comparing mod. G. anweben to weave on or to.) Another OE. form was áwef, ówef whence WOOF.] The woof or weft in a web. Also attrib.

1 a. 1000.  Ælfric, etc., in Wright’s Vocabularies, I. 282/1. Stamen wearp. Subtimen aweb. Ibid., 66/1. Subtegmen awebb. Ibid., 59/2. Trama vel subtemen oweb vel ab. Ibid., 40/1. Tramasericum seolcen ab … Linostema linen wearp, vel wyllen ab.

2 1757.  Lisle, Husbandry, 500. What is on the back and ribs is somewhat finer, and makes, in druggets, the thread called abb.

3 1774.  Act 14 Geo. III., c. xxv. Frauds are frequently committed by persons employed in the woollen manufactory … by the weavers withholding part of the woof or abb yarn delivered to them.

4 1835.  Partington, Brit. Cycl., s.v. Abb, the yarn of a weaver’s warp, whence the wool of which it is made is termed abb-wool.

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