treadle

Example Sentences

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I had to stretch to reach the treadle.

From Literature

She’d thread it and throw the shuttle and start working the foot treadles.

From Literature

If you have room, there are treadle feeders that are rat resistant you can use in the coop.

From Salon

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.

From Scientific American

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.

From Literature