JACQUARDS

Noun

jacquards

plural of jacquard

Source: Wiktionary


JACQUARD

Jac*quard", a.

Definition: Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure.

– Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus.

– Jackquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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