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Definition of Heckles
1. heckle [v] - See also: heckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heckles
Literary usage of Heckles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"The wheel« с, с, with all attached to them, were I made to rise and lower upon
the heckles, and the back-boards G to ris» when the heckle bench turned. ..."
2. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1849)
"... only that they are made in this case of greater length, in order to make room
for the addition to their peripheries of sets of rigid heckles, c, ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1849)
"There are aleo loose •tripping ban with guards, which, besides regulating the
depth to which the heckles or brushes shall penetrate, doff the tow from the ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1829)
"In this way the points of the heckles are successively brought under the strick
of flax suspended, as already described, at a, for the purpose of opening* ..."
5. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"The sheets of heckles 3 B aro made of leather straps passing round the small ...
The heckles then descend in a vertical lino until they reach the lower ..."
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