HEDDLE

Definitions: HEDDLE

HEDDLE

Noun

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.

Transitive verb

1. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HEDDLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Small loom combing a number of light loops; it raises the warp threads which are inserted in the loops in order to permit forming of various weaves. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Instrument	Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: HEDDLE

English words defined with "HEDDLE": Heald, Heddle-eye, Heddles. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HEDDLE": DRAWING-IN DRAFT, DRAWING-IN FRAME ♦ HARNESS BUILDER, harness preparer, harness repairer, HEDDLE CLEANER, MACHINE, HEDDLES TIER, JACQUARD LOOM ♦ misdraw hand ♦ PATTERN-LEASE INSPECTOR ♦ SMASH HAND. (references)

Etymologies containing "HEDDLE": Heald. (references)

"HEDDLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HEDDLE" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	19	80,337

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "HEDDLE": Heddle-eye.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "HEDDLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		综片 (Heddles). (various references)

Danish		harnisk (harness, heald, wire heald), sølle i væv (heald), lidse i væv (heald), lidse (edging, harness, heald, wire heald). (various references)

Finnish		niisi (harness, heald, wire heald). (various references)

French		maillon de lisse (heald), lisse (heald, wire heald). (various references)

German		Helfe (harness, heald, wire heald), Häfel (harness, heald, wire heald), Webelitze (harness, heald, wire heald), Litze (braid, edging, flex, harness, heald, lace, primary strand, strand, stranded wire, wire heald). (various references)

Greek		ρέλι (binding, border, heald, hem, rand), στημόνι (harness, heald, warp, wire heald), στενή ταινία υφάσματος (heald), μιτάρι (harness, heald, wire heald), μίτος (harness, heald, thread, wire heald), �'ελονιάζω. (various references)

Hebrew		ּיץ (Heald). (various references)

Italian		maglia di liccio (heald), liccio (harness, heald, wire heald). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		綾糸 (colored thread, heddle thread, thread of cat's cradle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あやいと (colored thread, heddle thread, thread of cat's cradle). (various references)

Manx		eallym. (various references)

Pig Latin		eddlehay

Portuguese		malha do liço (heald), liço (gear, harness, heald, heald shaft, wire heald). (various references)

Spanish		malla de lizo (heald), lizo (harness, heald, wire heald). (various references)

Swedish		solv (heald), skaftgång (harness, heald, wire heald). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "HEDDLE": heddles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"HEDDLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cheddie, deddle, geddle, haddle, hadle, haedle, hawdle, Hedblom, Heddwen, heedle, heedled, Heidel, neddle, Pheidole. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-h-l"
	-1 letter: deled.
	-2 letters: deed, dele, heed, heel, held.
	-3 letters: dee, del, edh, eel, eld, led, lee.
	-4 letters: de, ed, eh, el, he.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-h-l"
	+1 letter: heddles.
	+2 letters: aldehyde, heralded, shielded, wheedled.
	+3 letters: aldehydes, delighted, dishelmed, handseled, headlined, rehandled, scheduled.
	+4 letters: baldheaded, bullheaded, chandelled, coolheaded, demolished, depolished, detachedly, disheveled, fiddlehead, handselled, longheaded, lunkheaded, shouldered, unheralded, unshielded.
	+5 letters: cleanhanded, clearheaded, coldhearted, delightedly, dishevelled, disrelished, fatheadedly, fiddleheads, hotheadedly, levelheaded, lightheaded, multiheaded, overhandled, paraldehyde, philandered, pigheadedly, rescheduled, swellheaded, unscheduled.
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