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treadle
[ tred-l ]
noun
- a lever or the like worked by continual action of the foot to impart motion to a machine.
- a platform, as on a bus or trolleycar, for opening an exit door.
verb (used without object)
- to work a treadle.
treadle
/ ˈtrɛdəl /
noun
- a rocking lever operated by the foot to drive a machine
- ( as modifier )
a treadle sewing machine
verb
- to work (a machine) with a treadle
Derived Forms
- ˈtreadler, noun
Other Words From
- tread·ler [tred, -ler], noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of treadle1
Example Sentences
If you have room, there are treadle feeders that are rat resistant you can use in the coop.
Imitating the English, whose male weaving guilds had produced fine cloths on foot-powered treadle looms since the 1300s, the Danes trained North Atlantic men to weave on these faster looms.
Dozens of mechanized needles pumping up and down sounded a continuous clickety-clack, clickety-clack over the rumble of foot treadles and the whir of spinning spools of thread.
By practicing those designs, his father said, he could learn the basic techniques for the family’s two-meter-wide wooden treadle loom.
Puzzles for adults came into fashion about a century later, spreading further when advances in the lithographic press and the foot-powered treadle jigsaw made them easier and cheaper to produce.
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