web-beam
[Cf. OHG. weppi-, weppe-, webboum, mod.G. webebaum.]
The roller in a loom on which the web is wound as it is woven.
| c 1100 in Wr.-Wülcker 187/11 Liciatorium, lorh, uel web⁓beam. Ibid. 188/4 Insubula, webbeamas. 14.. Ibid. 696/19 Hoc laciatorium [sic], a webbeme. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 835/2 From this opening the web passes to the knee-roll or web-beam, round which it is rolled by means of the spokes. |