The frame that holds threads still so they can be crossed into cloth. A loom makes weaving possible by holding tension.
Old English geloma (a tool, an implement of any kind), narrowed by the fifteenth century to the weaving frame specifically — the one tool that kept its old general name after the others lost it.
The frame that holds threads still so they can be crossed into cloth. In this house, the board where meaning is thought together before it is built.