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Heddle vs Peddle - What's the difference?

heddle | peddle |

As verbs the difference between heddle and peddle

is that heddle is to thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle while peddle is to sell things, especially door to door.

As a noun 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.

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)

    peddle

    English

    Verb

    (peddl)
  • To sell things, especially door to door.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
  • To sell illegal narcotics.
  • (derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.
  • * 2009 , Michael John Beashel, Unshackled (page 166)
    • Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
  • * 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)
    • Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
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    • Related terms

    * peddler * peddling