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Heddle vs Huddle - What's the difference?

heddle | huddle |

As nouns the difference between heddle and huddle

is that heddle is 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 while huddle is a dense and disorderly crowd.

As verbs the difference between heddle and huddle

is that heddle is to thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle while huddle is to crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

heddle

English

(wikipedia heddle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1808 , John Duncan, Practical and Descriptive Essays on the Art of Weaving , Volume 1, page 72,
    • The only other table, generally used by operative weavers, is that for setting the heddles', so as to correspond with the reed. Few weavers are in possession of a sufficient variety of ' heddles , to suit every reed in which they may be employed to weave cloth.
  • * 1948 January, Make Weaving Your Hobby'', '' , Volume 89, Number 1, page 190,
    • The heddles' and ' heddle frames, Fig. 3, and the reed may be purchased from dealers in craftwork supplies.
  • * 1980 , US Department of the Army, Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy , page 7-22,
    • If errors have occurred in threading the heddles , it is usually expedient to remove all threads from the begining(sic) of the error and re-thread them correctly.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * heald

    Derived terms

    * heddle hook * repair heddle

    Related terms

    * heddled (adjective)

    Verb

    (heddl)
  • To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle .
  • * 1947 , Rayon Textile Monthly , Volume 28, page 377,
    • After each frame has been heddled , stand upright within easy reach until the full set has been completed.
  • * 1982 , Arthur MacGregor, Anglo-Scandinavian Finds from Lloyds Bank, Pavement, and Other Sites , Volume 17, Part 3, page 118,
    • 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.
  • * 1994 , Kim Mi-ju, Gender Division of Labor and Skill as a Factor of Sex Wage Differentials'', Hy?ng Cho, Chang Pil-Wha (editors), ''Gender Division of Labor (in) Korea , , 116,
    • After heddling she takes the reeds and arranges them as ordered. She knows that if reed denting is uneven, the textile is ruined.

    Related terms

    * unheddled (adjective)

    huddle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a dense and disorderly crowd
  • (American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.

    • Verb

    (huddl)
  • To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
    • During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
  • To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
  • To get together and discuss.
  • * 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
    • George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
  • (American football) To form a huddle.
  • To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
  • * (John Locke)
    • Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
  • To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
  • * J. H. Newman
    • Huddle up a peace.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.