HEDDLE

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
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.

2.
v.

To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

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