Treadle

Definition

treadle /'tredl/ n (စက္လည္ေစေသာ) ေျခနင္း။ a treadle sewing machine.

Examples

1. ‘He dipped his fingers in water
2. spun the bowls using a foot treadle and then played them almost like a piano.’
3. ‘My thin black boot beat on the treadle
4. urging the wheel to spin harder.’
5. ‘I almost wished we could use the defunct treadles because every time I turned my machine own it ran away with me.’
6. ‘In this experiment
7. demonstrator pigeons either stepped on a treadle or pecked at the treadle to obtain a food reward.’
8. ‘He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work
9. not an encroaching fever.’
10. ‘He said that Tri-Lakes would provide 100 per cent maintenance to the treadle pumps that were given to the farmers.’
11. ‘My mother wasn't good at sewing but she had a treadle sewing machine and patched and patched.’
12. ‘Franklin's glass armonica
13. which rests in a mahogany veneered case on cabriole legs and pad feet
14. was probably originally fitted with a foot treadle to rotate the axle on which the color-coded glass bowls were mounted.’
15. ‘She had a treadle sewing machine and mended everything.’
16. ‘Other developments in the nineteenth century included the reclining dental chair
17. amalgam fillings (which were controversial even in the 1850s)
18. and the treadle engine for driving the dental drill.’
19. ‘It lived for a long time at the bottom of the button drawer on my grandmother's old treadle Singer sewing machine
20. which I had inherited.’
21. ‘Polishing in our workshop had to be done on an old treadle lathe
22. the only machine we had.’
23. ‘Clothing and homemade baskets come from a cooperative of women who sew on foot treadle machines.’
24. ‘I loved the sound of my boot beating on the treadle.’
25. ‘A Scottish blacksmith
26. Kirkpatrick MacMillan
27. is credited with adding a treadle drive mechanism in 1840
28. for the first time enabling the rider to lift his feet off the ground.’
29. ‘Pumping their feet on the treadle would turn the drill bit in the patient's tooth.’
30. ‘The other result was that Bob became skilled at hand setting lines of display type
31. locking up printing formes and hand feeding both treadle and motorised presses.’
32. ‘The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.’
33. ‘For instance
34. a woman using buckets can do 200-500 square metres while the treadle pump user can cover up to 2
35. 500 square metres (five times as much) within the same given time.’
36. ‘I replaced the missing foot treadle; otherwise
37. it is as found.’