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langweb

, long + web.
Searchable Lemmata: langweb (OE).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Manufacture; warp; the threads that run the length of the loom.(circa 1000)
1. Tela : langweb.Gloss on Isid. Etym. 19,29,1 : Tela pro longitudine staminum dicta, cuius dirivativum est telaria. Insubuli, quia infra et supra sunt, vel quia insubulantur. Radii dicti quia radendo fiunt. Pectines, quod pexa fila reddant et inpremant. [DOE AntGl 6 (Kindschi) (0680 (680))]
c.f.: toile
OE.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, transparent compound of OE lang + web 'that which is woven'
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