Heddle
[hedl]
Definition
(n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
(v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Healds.
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Definition
n. a series of vertical cords or wires each having in the middle a loop (Hedd′le-eye) to receive a warp-thread and passing round and between parallel bars.—v.t. to draw warp-threads through heddle-eyes.
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Examples
- The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For this purpose the warp threads, usually horizontal, are each passed through a loop, and every alternate loop is attached to a frame called a heddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Among the recent devices is one which dispenses with the expensive and skilful work by hand of drawing the warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of the loom. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The drawing of warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of a loom requires great skill, and prior to 1880 was performed by hand at great expense. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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