Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
treadle . - noun Dung of sheep or of hares.
- noun A prostitute; a strumpet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
treadle . - noun obsolete A prostitute; a strumpet.
- noun The dung of sheep or hares.
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- noun Alternative form of
treadle . - verb Alternative form of
treadle . - noun The
dung ofsheep orhares . - noun informal A
prostitute ;strumpet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But we amembers treddle sewin masheens an blakanwyt tellee, awl teh saym!
mam, i r the suprvizer - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Mai Mummah had a nawt-elektrik treddle sewing masheen for yeersanyeers – maed awl owr summer dresses an partee dresses an Nativity costooms awn it.
i has two ansers. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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So mai Mummah stayed up awl nite an maed me wun awn her treddle sewing masheen.
i has two ansers. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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About 100,000 treddle pumps, manufactured in India, have been distributed to poor farmers since the past three years to help irrigate their crops to boost maize production, the staple food in Malawi.
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-- This invention relates to the manner in which a stick of fire wood, or cord wood, is held fast or secured in the saw buck for the purpose of sawing it into suitable lengths, and it consists in arranging adjustable toothed clamps for holding the stick, which clamps are brought in contact with it by bearing upon a treddle with the foot.
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Sea-island cotton is very easily cleaned; the wool being stripped off the seed, readily and smoothly, by means of two rollers about an inch in diameter, moving in opposite directions, and driven by a treddle, like the wheel of a lathe.
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The first one drew out the thread and moved the treddle that turned the wheel, the second moistened the thread, the third twisted it, and rapped with her finger on the table, and as often as she rapped a heap of yarn fell to the ground, and it was most beautifully spun.
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824
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This time she went into the tailoring business by buying her first sewing machine - one that operated on a treddle instead.
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They fit on a low llage, above which the two poppet heads and points are raifed fix inches, and inflead of a pole and treddle they ufe a bow.
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a spindle and distaff; their loom, which is Tibetan is a very complicated one framed of bamboo; it is worked by hand, without beam treddle, or shuttle.
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