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EDMUND CARTWRIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
Synonyms:
Cartwright; Edmund Cartwright
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Instance hypernyms:
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)