drawboy

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English

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Etymology

From draw +‎ boy.

Noun

drawboy (plural drawboys)

  1. (weaving, historical) A boy who operates the harness cords of a handloom.
    Coordinate term: drawgirl
  2. Part of a power loom that performs the same function.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drawboy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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