treadle

In college, I found a treadle machine in an empty dorm room, oiled it and made a blouse and quilt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

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 ● Sep. 15, 2022

My leg pulsed with pain every time it pushed down on the treadle.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

During this period, she was collecting books on weaving, learning how to measure the warp threads and tie up the treadles on a loom.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Dozens of mechanized needles pumping up and down sounded a continuous clickety-clack, clickety-clack over the rumble of foot treadles and the whir of spinning spools of thread.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

Heads bent, mouths fanning straight pins, hem-covered oxfords working unseen treadles, they continued production.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the strenuousness of his concentration he treadled fitfully on the floor.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day, turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be noted for its irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars.

From Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen

At that time I have had some success with a box trap treadled by an electric contrivance instead of figure 4.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Here were the big cutting-out table, the treadled sewing machine, three or four chairs, many fragments of material, several half-made garments, and, upon the walls, a number of coloured prints from fashion papers.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

The countryside appeared to be the immemorial land of the peasant�few motor highways, trucks or tractors but plenty of human feet treadling water wheels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down the white ribbon of road the Virile Benedict of the Libraries came bicycling, treadling easily from the ankles.

From Once a Week by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

The operators, relieved of the treadling, maintained a much better working condition; and altogether the introduction of power driving, once well tested, became a necessity.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various

While the uncle stopped treadling and held the blue-tailed shuttle in his hand, the breathless little boy told him that the field was finished.

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Russell, Ruth

For a moment Peg was silent, treadling away busily at her machine, and Faith stole a timid glance at her.

From The Beggar Man by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)