Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LOOM, n. [Sax. loma, geloma, utensils.]

1. In composition, heir-loom, in law, is a personal chattel that by special custom descends to an heir with the inheritance, being such a thing as can not be separated from the estate, without injury to it; such as jewels of the crown, charters, deeds, and the like. – Blackstone.
2. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver works thread into cloth. Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. – Rambler.
3. [Dan. lom or loom, G. lohme.] A fowl of the size of a goose.
4. That part of an oar which is within board. – Mar. Dict.