单词	treadle
释义	treadle /ˈtrɛd(ə)l / noun A lever worked by the foot and imparting motion to a machine.She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.... My mother wasn't good at sewing but she had a treadle sewing machine and patched and patched. 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. verb [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
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