"heddle hook" meaning in All languages combined

See heddle hook on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: heddle hooks [plural]
Etymology: From heddle + hook. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|heddle|hook}} heddle + hook Head templates: {{en-noun}} heddle hook (plural heddle hooks)
  1. A hooked implement used to thread a strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle. Categories (topical): Weaving Synonyms (implement for threading a heddle): reed hook, threading hook, warp hook

Inflected forms

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