Lexicographical Neighbors of Treddles
Literary usage of Treddles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Its lathe, See 15 OTTO its treddles, its breast beam, its shuttle boxes- and
shuttle slide were 'as well known to all those concerned in the weaving of pile ..."
2. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"He therefore adds five more treddles, the cording of which is exactly the reverse
of the former ; that is to say, the back leaves, in the former case, ..."
3. Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such by Noël Antoine Pluche (1763)
"Several Morocco's and mod Serges are made with four treddles ; whereby the Threads of
... if it be made with eight, ten, twenty four, or more treddles. ..."
4. The Mechanics' Magazine (1856)
"The mode of putting the actuating details of treddles into or out of gear with
the treddles, by means of a barrel or its equivalent fitted with pins capable ..."
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