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heddle, n. Weaving.|ˈhɛd(ə)l|
Also 6 hedel(l)e, Sc. heidle, 8–9 hiddle, 9 ? dial. haddle.
[app.:—OE. *hęfedl, earlier form of hęfeld: see heald.]
In pl., The small cords (or in recent use, wires) through which the warp is passed in a loom after going through the reed, and by means of which the warp threads are separated into two sets so as to allow the passage of the shuttle bearing the weft.
A leaf of heddles consists of a set of parallel cords of the width of the webs stretched vertically between two horizontal shafts of wood, and forming in their centre loops or eyes through which the warp-threads pass.
1513Douglas æneis vii. i. 29 With subtell slais and hir heidlis [1553 hedeles] sle, Rych lenȝe wobbis natly weiffis sche. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 791 To weve in the stoule some were full preste, With slaiis, with tavellis, with hedellis well drest. 1792A. Adam Rom. Antiq. 523 The principal parts of the machinery of a loom, vulgarly called the Caam or Hiddles, composed of eyed or hooked threads, through which the warp passes. 1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 215 The depression of each treadle will correspondingly influence the position of its heddle. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 979 In every species of weaving..the whole difference of pattern or effect is produced, either by the succession in which the threads of warp are introduced into the heddles, or by the succession in which those heddles are moved in the working.
b. Comb., as heddle-beam, heddle-maker, heddle-thread, heddle-twine, heddle-yarn; heddle-eye, -hook, -lever: see quots.
1794A. Martin Agric. Surv. Renfr. 257 (Jam.) Heddles..are made of very strong thread called heddle-twine. 1852Appleton Dict. Mech. 257 The heddle-beam. 1864Webster, Heddle-eye, the eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp-thread. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Heddle-hook, a hook used in heddling the warp-threads. 1885G. A. Grierson Bihar Peas. Life 74 Heddle-levers..the upper levers to which the heddles are attached.
Hence heddle v. trans., to draw (warp-threads) through the eyes of a heddle.
1864Webster, Heddling. 1875[see b above]. |