ppl. a. and sb. [var. of WOVEN: see forms of WEAVE v.1]
1. = WOVEN ppl. a. 1, 2, 3.
1710. Shaftesb., 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. Robt., 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).
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, 927. The framework 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. 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 sb.
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.
