heddle.
A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
Meaning & usage
A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.
To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.
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