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Treadle
Treadle meaning
A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates motion. | A device actuated by wheels passing over it. | Chalaza.
Synonyms of Treadle
Example sentences (9)
The rooms are packed with heirlooms inherited from parents and grandparents, including a Catholic bishop’s chair that came from Gioventu’s family and a treadle table Singer sewing machine from his grandmother.
Ms O'Loughlin, who owns MoneyPenny SJ Vintage and has a unit at Caldicott's in Stourport, drove six hours to Edinburgh with her cast iron treadle dental polisher to try and impress the dealers.
Actually, most Brits has gone out askew on the treadle, whereas more Americans caught sayof or want to do look more like.
One of the flaye-rods has gone out of skew on the treadle.
A pigeon could access the food reward by either pecking at a treadle or stepping on it.
In 1810, the foot treadle broom machine was invented.
Kente is a ceremonial cloth hand-woven on a horizontal treadle loom and strips measuring about 4 inches wide are sewn together into larger pieces of cloths.
Modern Era Early modern period *c. 1600 – The modern spinning wheel comes together with the addition of the treadle to the flyer wheel.
Technological improvements such as the spinning wheel ( charkha ) and treadle (pai-chah) in the weaver's loom were gradually introduced and the processes of designing, dyeing and printing by block were refined.