treadle

Example Sentences

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By practicing those designs, his father said, he could learn the basic techniques for the family’s two-meter-wide wooden treadle loom.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

Fittingly, at the tender heart of this book is a treadle sewing machine used by his grandmother, Mamá Tey, to support the family in El Salvador and, later, San Francisco.

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His only machinery was a buffing machine and a sewing table with a treadle.

From Los Angeles Times

Letterpress is already a heavy slog as it is, but she of course has found an even harder way: the one-ton machine in her studio in Oakland is operated by foot treadle.

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