| 1. | Textiles. a pattern of stripes or bands of color extending across the warp in woven and knitted fabrics. |
| 2. | Textiles. a streak in the filling direction when one or more picks are of a color different from that of adjacent picks. |
| 3. | Music. a technique of playing a chord on a stringed instrument by laying a finger across the strings at a particular fret, raising their pitch. |