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"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "heddles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "heddling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "heddled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "heddled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "heddle (third-person singular simple present heddles, present participle heddling, simple past and past participle heddled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "unheddled"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947, Rayon Textile Monthly, volume 28, page 377",
"text": "After each frame has been heddled, stand upright within easy reach until the full set has been completed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1982, Arthur MacGregor, Anglo-Scandinavian Finds from Lloyds Bank, Pavement, and Other Sites, volume 17, part 3, page 118",
"text": "This, of course, discounts the idea that the system of heddling based on Icelandic descriptions (Hoffmann, 1964, 188, fig. 91) has been used for all time, although it could in theory have been used for any of the 2/2 twills in the York collection.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "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,\nAfter heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle."
],
"links": [
[
"thread",
"thread"
],
[
"strand",
"strand"
],
[
"warp",
"warp"
],
[
"eye",
"eye"
]
]
}
],
"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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