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Definition of Treadles
1. treadle [v] - See also: treadle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treadles
Literary usage of Treadles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of by Clinton G. Gilroy (1844)
"ARRANGEMENT OF treadles. When a great number of treadles are necessary to ...
Jn this case it is common to place the treadles in regular succession from ..."
2. Railway Signal Engineering (mechanical) by Leonard P. Lewis (1912)
"treadles. Contacts operated by a train for making or breaking electric circuits are
... Practically all treadles depend on the fact that when a loaded wheel ..."
3. Shans at Home by Wilbur Willis Cochrane (1910)
"treadles of looms are of wood; they are either square or circular, ... In weaving,
the treadles remain partly under the toes, partly under the ball of the ..."
4. The Art of Weaving: By Hand and by Power, with an Introductory Account of by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845)
"ARRANGEMENT OF treadles. When a great number of treadles are necessary to produce
any effect, it will be obviously the best way to arrange them in the ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... threads are each (as in the common •weaving process) passed through a small
loop in the lifting thread, so as to be raised by means of the treadles, ..."
6. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"... a small loop in the lifting thread, so as to be raised by means of the treadles,
which act directly upon the lifting bars ; these lifting threads (fig. ..."
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