一切經音義 82.10

82.10

杼軸 Shuttles and rollers (the first character is pronounced [in fanqie] 除 + 旅; the second is pronounced [in fanqie] 蟲 + 陸; Zheng's commentary on the Shijing says: "There were no other goods, only silk and hemp; now the shuttles and rollers stand idle and unproductive." The Fangyan says: "杼軸 means to work; in eastern Qi, earthenware work is called 杼, and wooden work is called 軸." The Shuowen says: "The device holding the weft on a loom; formed with 'wood' (木) as semantic and 予 as phonetic").