heddle

Etymology
From, from , from the root of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
 * 2) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) 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.

Synonyms

 * heald

Derived terms

 * heddle hook
 * repair heddle

Related terms

 * heddled

Translations

 * Ahom: 𑜁𑜧
 * Catalan: collador
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Helfe
 * Icelandic: hafald
 * Irish: úim
 * Italian: liccio
 * Navajo: iiʼsinil
 * Polish: struna nicielnicowa
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ničanice,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: brwyd, brwyden

Verb

 * 1) To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.
 * 2) * 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hyŏng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea, Ewha Womans University Press, 116,
 * After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.
 * 1) * 1994, Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials, Hyŏng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea, Ewha Womans University Press, 116,
 * After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.

Related terms

 * unheddled

Translations

 * Icelandic: draga í höföld
 * Italian: