[Cf. OHG. weppi-, weppe-, webboum, mod.G. webebaum.] The roller in a loom on which the web is wound as it is woven.
c. 1700. in Wr.-Wülcker, 187/11. Liciatorium, lorh, uel webbeam. Ibid., 188/4. Insubula, webbeamas. Ibid. (14[?]), 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.
