"heddle" meaning in English

See heddle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: heddles [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{inh|en|enm|helde}} Middle English helde, {{inh|en|ang|hefeld}} Old English hefeld, {{der|en|gem-pro|*habjaną||to have, heave}} Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-, {{cog|osx|hevild}} Old Saxon hevild, {{cog|gml|hevelte}} Middle Low German hevelte, {{cog|is|hafald}} Icelandic hafald Head templates: {{en-noun}} heddle (plural heddles)
  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. Categories (topical): Weaving Translations (part of a loom): 𑜁𑜧 (khaw) (Ahom), collador [masculine] (Catalan), hevel [masculine] (Dutch), niisi (Finnish), lisse [feminine] (French), Litze [feminine] (German), Helfe [feminine] (German), hafald [neuter] (Icelandic), niisi (Ingrian), úim [feminine] (Irish), liccio [masculine] (Italian), iiʼsinil (Navajo), struna nicielnicowa [feminine] (Polish), cocleț [neuter] (Romanian), ničanice [feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), list [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), lizo [masculine] (Spanish), solv [neuter] (Swedish), brwyd [feminine] (Welsh), brwyden [feminine] (Welsh)
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  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. Categories (topical): Weaving
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: heald Derived forms: heddle hook, repair heddle Related terms: heddled [adjective]

Verb

Forms: heddles [present, singular, third-person], heddling [participle, present], heddled [participle, past], heddled [past]
Etymology: From Middle English helde, from Old English hefeld, from the root of Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-. Cognate with Old Saxon hevild, Middle Low German hevelte, Icelandic hafald. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{inh|en|enm|helde}} Middle English helde, {{inh|en|ang|hefeld}} Old English hefeld, {{der|en|gem-pro|*habjaną||to have, heave}} Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, heave”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p-, {{cog|osx|hevild}} Old Saxon hevild, {{cog|gml|hevelte}} Middle Low German hevelte, {{cog|is|hafald}} Icelandic hafald Head templates: {{en-verb}} heddle (third-person singular simple present heddles, present participle heddling, simple past and past participle heddled)
  1. To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle. Categories (topical): Weaving Related terms: unheddled [adjective] Translations (to thread individual strands of the warp through the eyes of heddles): draga í höföld (Icelandic), allicciare (Italian)
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Inflected forms

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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to thread individual strands of the warp through the eyes of heddles",
      "word": "draga í höföld"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to thread individual strands of the warp through the eyes of heddles",
      "word": "allicciare"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "heddle"
  ],
  "word": "heddle"
}

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