treadle

Example Sentences

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The beavers were captured using four large traps, which shut behind the animals when they step on a treadle inside.

From BBC

I had to stretch to reach the treadle.

From Literature

She’d thread it and throw the shuttle and start working the foot treadles.

From Literature

If you have room, there are treadle feeders that are rat resistant you can use in the coop.

From Salon

Imitating the English, whose male weaving guilds had produced fine cloths on foot-powered treadle looms since the 1300s, the Danes trained North Atlantic men to weave on these faster looms.

From Scientific American