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Definition of treadle in English: treadlenoun ˈtrɛd(ə)lˈtrɛdl A lever worked by the foot and imparting motion to a machine. Example sentencesExamples - For instance, a woman using buckets can do 200-500 square metres while the treadle pump user can cover up to 2,500 square metres (five times as much) within the same given time.
- Polishing in our workshop had to be done on an old treadle lathe, the only machine we had.
- He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work, not an encroaching fever.
- The other result was that Bob became skilled at hand setting lines of display type, locking up printing formes and hand feeding both treadle and motorised presses.
- He said that Tri-Lakes would provide 100 per cent maintenance to the treadle pumps that were given to the farmers.
- My mother wasn't good at sewing but she had a treadle sewing machine and patched and patched.
- Other developments in the nineteenth century included the reclining dental chair, amalgam fillings (which were controversial even in the 1850s), and the treadle engine for driving the dental drill.
- Pumping their feet on the treadle would turn the drill bit in the patient's tooth.
- Franklin's glass armonica, which rests in a mahogany veneered case on cabriole legs and pad feet, was probably originally fitted with a foot treadle to rotate the axle on which the color-coded glass bowls were mounted.
- She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.
- I loved the sound of my boot beating on the treadle.
- My thin black boot beat on the treadle, urging the wheel to spin harder.
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
- Clothing and homemade baskets come from a cooperative of women who sew on foot treadle machines.
- I almost wished we could use the defunct treadles because every time I turned my machine own it ran away with me.
- A Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, is credited with adding a treadle drive mechanism in 1840, for the first time enabling the rider to lift his feet off the ground.
- He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
- I replaced the missing foot treadle; otherwise, it is as found.
- In this experiment, demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward.
- It lived for a long time at the bottom of the button drawer on my grandmother's old treadle Singer sewing machine, which I had inherited.
verb ˈtrɛd(ə)lˈtrɛdl [with object]Operate (a machine) with a treadle. he was treadling the cardboard-box machine
Origin Old English tredel 'stair, step' (see tread). Rhymes backpedal, heddle, medal, meddle, pedal, peddle Definition of treadle in US English: treadlenounˈtredlˈtrɛdl 1A lever worked by the foot that imparts motion to a machine. Example sentencesExamples - Polishing in our workshop had to be done on an old treadle lathe, the only machine we had.
- Franklin's glass armonica, which rests in a mahogany veneered case on cabriole legs and pad feet, was probably originally fitted with a foot treadle to rotate the axle on which the color-coded glass bowls were mounted.
- A Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, is credited with adding a treadle drive mechanism in 1840, for the first time enabling the rider to lift his feet off the ground.
- She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.
- The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
- Clothing and homemade baskets come from a cooperative of women who sew on foot treadle machines.
- The other result was that Bob became skilled at hand setting lines of display type, locking up printing formes and hand feeding both treadle and motorised presses.
- It lived for a long time at the bottom of the button drawer on my grandmother's old treadle Singer sewing machine, which I had inherited.
- For instance, a woman using buckets can do 200-500 square metres while the treadle pump user can cover up to 2,500 square metres (five times as much) within the same given time.
- He dipped his fingers in water, spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.
- My mother wasn't good at sewing but she had a treadle sewing machine and patched and patched.
- I almost wished we could use the defunct treadles because every time I turned my machine own it ran away with me.
- In this experiment, demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward.
- My thin black boot beat on the treadle, urging the wheel to spin harder.
- Pumping their feet on the treadle would turn the drill bit in the patient's tooth.
- I replaced the missing foot treadle; otherwise, it is as found.
- Other developments in the nineteenth century included the reclining dental chair, amalgam fillings (which were controversial even in the 1850s), and the treadle engine for driving the dental drill.
- He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work, not an encroaching fever.
- I loved the sound of my boot beating on the treadle.
- He said that Tri-Lakes would provide 100 per cent maintenance to the treadle pumps that were given to the farmers.
- 1.1 Any of a row of metal spikes set on an angle on a spring within a plate laid across the entrance or exit of a parking facility, used to prevent drivers from using the facility without paying.
verbˈtredlˈtrɛdl [with object]Operate (a machine) using a treadle. he was treadling the cardboard-box machine
Origin Old English tredel ‘stair, step’ (see tread). |