threadlev.
/ˈθrɛd(ə)l/ dialect.
= thread v.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > thread needle
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1767 I. Bickerstaff Love in City i. ii Here threadle my needle.
1829 Bowlker's Art of Angling (new ed.) 52 Threadle this gudgeon.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Threadle, to thread; to string.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 130 A passage adjoined Thriddling the inner palace.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases (at cited word) To ‘threddle’ a needle is to pass thread through the eye of it ready for sewing.
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