A wooden or plastic rod on which weft yarn is wound for use in a loom. The pirn is fixed in place on the loom, and the thread wound from the base forward for optimum thread delivery. From the English prin, meaning “twig” and the Proto-Germanic perunaz, meaning “knitting needle.”
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