▪ I. wove, ppl. a. and n.
(wəʊv)
[var. of woven: see forms of weave v.1]
1. a. = woven ppl. a. 1, 2, 3.
| 1710 Shaftesbury Soliloquy iii. ii. 147, I can't conceive..how a Writer changes his Capacity, by this new Dress, any more than by the wear of Wove Stockins, after having worn no other Manufacture than the Knit. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India I. i. ii. 37 Opening a trade for wove goods on the coast. 1831 Scott Ct. Rob. xii, The chairs and couches were covered with Eastern wove mats. 1840 Mrs. Gaugain Lady's Assist. Knitting I. 57 If a wove stocking, open up the seam. 1903 Kipling Five Nations 15 'Mid bergs about the Ice-cap Or wove Sargasso weed. |
b. wove mould, the particular kind of mould used in making wove paper (see quot. 1854).
| 1806 H. Fourdrinier Brit. Patent 2951 4 A number of moulds of the description called laid or wove, any number of which..are capable of forming one long mould. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 927 The frame-work of a wove mould is nearly the same. 1854 C. Tomlinson Obj. Art-Manuf., Paper 20 In wove moulds, as their name implies, the wire is woven into wire cloth. |
2. techn. a. Of paper: Made on a mould of closely woven wire. (See 1 b, and cf. woven ppl. a. 4.)
| 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 63 Wove Foolscap. 1815 Ann. Reg., Chron. 86 It is printed on the most splendid wove paper. 1879 Print. Trades Jrnl. XXIX. 43 A hand⁓made, blue wove Foolscap paper. |
b. absol. or as n.
| 1859 Stationers' Handbk. 12 In woven papers may be mentioned Blue Wove..; then comes another, which..is termed Yellow Wove. 1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 56 That warm cream colour..so much desired in high-class cream wove and laid post. |
▪ II. wove
pa. tense and pple. of weave v.1