heddle
[hed-l]
- one of the sets of vertical cords or wires in a loom, forming the principal part of the harness that guides the warp threads.
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Origin of heddle
1505–15; perhaps representing Old English *hefedl, a metathetic variant of hefeld (Middle English helde, ModE heald), cognate with Old Saxon hevild; akin to Old Norse hafald
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Examples from the Web for heddle
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This will fasten the heddle in its place across the loom (Fig. 12).
Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for GirlsLina Beard
This very ingenious man in 1801 invented a substitute for the heddle.
Stories of Useful InventionsSamuel Eagle Foreman
With his left hand he works the reed, with his feet he works the heddle.
Stories of Useful InventionsSamuel Eagle Foreman
On each side of the woof in the heddle there is a carrier, B.
Prof. Kennedy argues that these rods are in the wrong position and that D1 which is a heddle should be in the place of D2.
Ancient Egyptian and Greek LoomsH. Ling Roth
heddle
- one of a set of frames of vertical wires on a loom, each wire having an eye through which a warp thread can be passed
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Word Origin
Old English hefeld chain; related to Old Norse hafald, Middle Low German hevelte
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