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A colored linen tape woven on a simple narrow loom and used for trimmings.

The yarn or thread used in making this tape.

A kind of tape or braid formerly employed as a trimming, being sewed upon the surface as in modern braided work. It was either of a single color or of several in stripes.

A material formerly used for decorative needlework, either crewel or embroidery-wool, or perhaps silk or flax.

In modern use, a broad linen tape; wrought spinel.

To hint at; disclose. In this use somewhat uncertain, being found only in the following passage:

To have a hint or inkling of; divine.

To guess.

A kind of tape or braid.

Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces