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n. - The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving.

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  • Its weft is a rich one, deriving from the poet's wide-ranging contacts with literature, history and reality.
  • Applying the weft is a serious uncommon skill which adds to the cost of the hair.
  • A word for the uninitiated...warping the loom means putting the yarn on the loom so you can weave with what's called the weft yarn.
  • Here the woof has been taken once to and fro; a movement called a weft or a course, one way only, goes by the name of a half pass or a shoot.
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