Web
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A very short dictionary-style entry from the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica defining a web as a tissue or texture of interwoven threads, with the lengthwise threads called the warp and the crosswise threads the woof. It refers readers to the entry CLOTH for more.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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