treadle

Example Sentences

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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

By practicing those designs, his father said, he could learn the basic techniques for the family’s two-meter-wide wooden treadle loom.

From New York Times

Puzzles for adults came into fashion about a century later, spreading further when advances in the lithographic press and the foot-powered treadle jigsaw made them easier and cheaper to produce.

From New York Times

Fittingly, at the tender heart of this book is a treadle sewing machine used by his grandmother, Mamá Tey, to support the family in El Salvador and, later, San Francisco.

From New York Times