Look up: heddle

1. heddle
   A fiber or metal strand, pierced with a hole (eye), through which the WARP END it controls is threaded.
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2. Heddle
   Hed'dle noun ; plural Heddles . [ Confer Heald .] (Weaving) 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.
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3. Heddle
   Hed'dle transitive verb To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.
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4. Heddle
   • (v. t.) To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving. • (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.
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5. heddle
   (from the article `textile`) Except on certain experimental looms, the warp shed is formed with the aid of heddles (or healds). Usually one heddle is provided for each end, or ... ...remained unchanged, but a long succession of improvements were introduced through ancient and medieval times in both Asia and Europe. One of the ... [2 ...
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6. Heddle
   In weaving, a heddle is one of the sets of parallel knotted cords forming loops for the warp threads; and by whose vertical reciprocation the warp threads are shifted so as to make the shed for the passage of the shuttle. Heddles are a necessary integral feature of all looms, having sets of strings ...
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7. Heddle
   A `heddle` is an integral part of a loom. Each thread in the warp passes through a heddle,<ref name="EB">"Weaving." The Encyclopædia Britannica. 11th ed. 1911.--> which is used to separate the warp threads for the passage of the weft.<ref name="EB"/><...
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