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Meddled vs Heddled - What's the difference?

meddled | heddled |

As verbs the difference between meddled and heddled

is that meddled is (meddle) while heddled is (heddle).

As an adjective heddled is

(of a loom|usually|in combination) that uses heddles.

meddled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (meddle)

    • meddle

    English

    Verb

    (meddl)
  • (obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • *:he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue.
  • *:
  • *:But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour
  • *, II.5.1.v:
  • *:Take a ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together.
  • (senseid)To interfere (in) or (with); to concern oneself with unduly.
  • *Bible, 2 Kings xiv.10:
  • *:Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?
  • *John Locke
  • *:The civil lawyershave meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
  • (obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
  • *Tyndale
  • *:Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.
  • :(Barrow)

    • Derived terms

    * meddlement * meddlesome * meddler

    Anagrams

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    heddled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a loom, usually, in combination) That uses heddles.
  • * 1950 , Observer Annual , page 29,
    • all reproduced in Ananda Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art are ordinary twill weaves which are produced with little effort on a multi-heddled handloom.
  • * 1964 , Robert James Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology , 5 (1957), page 227,
    • It is difficult to decide with von Stokar, that such twills were woven on a four-heddled loom (6).
  • * 1967 , Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone , page 15,
    • Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.
  • * 1986 , Howard L. Needles, S. Haig Zeronian, Historic Textile and Paper Materials: Conservation and Characterization , Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, page 271,
    • Once a heddled loom is used, the spiraling encircling action of twining is no longer feasible.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (heddle)