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That which is woven; a woven fabric; specifically, a whole piece of cloth in course of being woven, or after it comes from the loom.
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Same as webbing, 1.
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The warp in a loom.
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Something resembling a web or sheet of cloth; specifically, a large roll of paper such as is used in the web-press for news papers.
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Any one of various thin and broad objects, probably so named from some similarity to the thin, broad fabric of the loom.
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The blade of a sword.
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The blade of a saw.
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The plate (or its equivalent) in a beam or girder which connects the upper and lower fiat or laterally extending plates.
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The corresponding part of a rail, between the tread and the foot. See cut under rail.
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The flat part of a wheel, between the nave and the rim, as in some railway-wheels—occupying the space where spokes would be in an ordinary wheel.
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The solid part of the bit of a key.
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The part of an anvil below the head, which is of reduced size.
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The thin, sharp part of the colter of a plow. See cut under plow.
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A canvas cloth used in a saddle.
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The basketwork of a gabion. See cut under gabion.
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In a vehicle, a combination of bands or straps of a stout fabric, serving to keep the hood from opening too far.
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The arm of a crank.
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In ornithology, the blade, standard, vane, or vexillum of a feather: so called from the texture acquired through the weaving or interlocking of the barbs by the barbules with their barbicels and hooklets.
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The plexus of very delicate threads or filaments which a spider spins, and which serves as a net to catch flies or other insects for its food; a cobweb; also, a similar substance spun and woven into a sort of fabric by many insects, usually as a covering or protection. See bag-worm, web-worm, and tent-caterpillar.
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Figuratively, anything carefully contrived and elaborately put together or woven; a plot; a scheme.
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In anatomy, a connective or other tissue; any open structure composed of fibers and membranes running into each other irregularly as if tangled, and serving to support fat or other soft substances. See tissue and histology.
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In zoology, the membrane or fold of skin which connects the digits of any animal; especially, that which connects the toes of a bird or a quadruped, making the animal palmiped, and the foot itself palmate, as occurs in nearly all aquatic birds (hence called web-footed), and in many aquatic mammals, as the beaver, the muskrat, and ornithorhynchus. Webs sometimes occur as a congenital defect of the human fingers or toes. The relatively largest webs are those of the bats' wings. In birds the extent and special character of the webs (technically called palamæ) are taken into some account in classification, and some conditions of the webs receive special names. See web-footed, and cuts under bat, duckbill, flying-frog, Œdemia, otary, palmate, semipalmate, and totipalmate.
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In coal-mining, the face or wall of a long-wall stall in course of being holed and broken down for removal.
To cover with or as with a web; envelop.
To connect with a web, as the toes of a bird; render palmate.