Heddle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of a set of parallel cords or wires in a loom used to separate and guide the warp threads and make a path for the shuttle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A part of a loom. Each of the threads that form a warp passes through an eye in a heddle to allow control of the up and down movement of the threads.
  • v. To draw the warp thread through the eyes of the heddle
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In weaving, a series of leashes, twines, cords, or wires vertically stretched, generally in pairs, between two horizontal bars or laths, looped about both bars, and joined in their middle part to form eyes for the reception of a warp-thread or yarn.
  • To draw (warp-threads) systematically through the eyes of a heddle.
  • Word Usage
    "Dr.H. G. H.rrison by no means overstates the case when he says that the development of the heddle is the most important step in the evolution of the loom (H.rniman Museum H.ndbooks, No. 10, pp. 47-49)."
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