treadle

Example Sentences

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The beavers were captured using four large traps, which shut behind the animals when they step on a treadle inside.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

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

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022

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 • Sep. 15, 2022

Later her mother let her use the treadle sewing machine.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Papi nailed new boards under Mami’s treadle sewing machine, and under their bed, but the floor still groaned and sagged to the corners, threatening to collapse and bring the house down with it.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago