woof
Meaning
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- The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft.
- A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric.
- The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft.
- (obsolete) Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”)
- Something which is interwoven with another thing.
- An underlying foundation or structure of something; a fabric.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/wuːf/
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric at right angles to the warp, weft, woof; also sometimes the warp; transverse filaments of a spider web”) [and other forms] (the forms beginning with w were influenced by warp and weft), from Old English ōwef, āwef, from ō-, ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + *wef (“web”) (only attested in the form gewef (“woof”); from wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid; to weave”)). The verb is derived from the noun.
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