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Definition heddle

Etymology

From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald.

Noun

heddle (plural heddles)

1. 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.
2. 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.

Verb

heddle (third-person singular simple present heddles, present participle heddling, simple past and past participle heddled)

1. To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.

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