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Grammar : Noun
Spell : loo-per
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlu pər



Définition of looper

  • As in pop fly : noun baseball hit high in the air
Example sentences :
  • A looper on the underside in place of the horizontal needle.
  • Extract from : « The Invention of the Sewing Machine » by Grace Rogers Cooper
  • Yet another is addicted to the Grey Worm and another to the Looper.
  • Extract from : « More Hunting Wasps » by J. Henri Fabre
  • I was mistaken: not a segment of the Looper is spared, not even the last ones.
  • Extract from : « More Hunting Wasps » by J. Henri Fabre
  • With Looper gone, though I expect Everet will do nearly as well at center, it means a certain loss of team work.
  • Extract from : « A Quarter-Back's Pluck » by Lester Chadwick
  • The loop spreaders are moved by a roller carried upon the looper frame.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 » by Various
  • These looper caterpillars cannot shorten nor lengthen their segments at will, as other caterpillars, but only bend their bodies.
  • Extract from : « The Insect World » by Louis Figuier
  • It covers the ground pretty quickly, buckling and unbuckling by turns, very much after the manner of the looper caterpillar.
  • Extract from : « The Life of the Fly » by J. Henri Fabre
  • Among the Lepidoptera, we notice a reduction in the number of pro-legs in the 'looper' caterpillars of Geometrid moths.
  • Extract from : « The Life-Story of Insects » by Geo. H. Carpenter
  • It is a "Looper," greyish at first and turning green later, and nearly an inch long when full grown.
  • Extract from : « Roses and Rose Growing » by Rose Georgina Kingsley
  • The thread was caught by a looper and detained so that it then became enchained in the next loop of thread.
  • Extract from : « The Invention of the Sewing Machine » by Grace Rogers Cooper

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