truvat
English
editNoun
edittruvat (plural truvats)
- Alternative form of trivet (“weaver's knife”)
- 1827, Encyclopaedia Edinensis, page 486:
- He now takes a sharp pointed instrument called a truvat, and runs the point along the groove of the wire first introduced, which relieves it, and leaves the ends of the pile projecting from the cloth, and forming the shag.