Abb
[æb]
Definition
(n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.
Typist: Ora
Definition
n. properly woof- or weft-yarn but sometimes warp-yarn.
Inputed by Lawrence
Examples
- It is true that the abbé mentions the idea, but he throws it out as a bare conjecture, and proposes no mode of ascertaining the truth of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Bernoulli, D'Alembert, Euler, Abbé Bossut, Venturi, and Eylewein in the Eighteenth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Abbé Terray raised it afterwards to the old rate of five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Not discouraged, the Abbé then called upon Puillet of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was said that the Abbé Nollet, 1748, had suggested the idea of the similarity of lightning and electricity in his _Le?ons de Physique_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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